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Blog Post If You Build It, They Will Come America’s favorite pastime — from one of baseball’s iconic professionals to its youngest players in the Caribbean — has a presence in several national park sites.
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Blog Post A National Park with Its Own Mountain Range Among the 63 national parks, Big Bend is the only one that encompasses an entire mountain range — the Chisos Mountains.
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Blog Post Collapsing Homes Threaten One of Our Most Popular National Seashores Coastal erosion is destroying beachfront houses near Cape Hatteras, creating dangerous debris and compounding problems for park staff.
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Blog Post Small Wonders: The Country's Teeniest National Park Sites Some national parks are celebrated for their vast landscapes, but these 10 sites share enormous stories and achievements in suprisingly small spaces.
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Blog Post A Critical Moment for the Climate The new Inflation Reduction Act would authorize nearly $1 billion for the National Park Service to respond to climate change, among its many benefits. Here’s what's in the bill, what's at stake — and what you can do.
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Blog Post 9 Park Success Stories Advocates Made Possible On the two-year anniversary of the Great American Outdoors Act, parks around the country are seeing big, tangible improvements as a result of this historic bipartisan victory.
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Blog Post 'Let the World See' These four journalists reported on the unspeakable, braving danger, and in some cases discrimination, to bring the brutal injustice of Emmett Till’s murder to light.
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Blog Post The First National Park East of the Mississippi Congress designated Yellowstone as the world’s first national park in 1872, inspiring a lasting fascination with the rugged landscapes of the West. The first U.S. national park east of the Mississippi was created just three years later ― but is far less known.
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Blog Post Take Better Park Photos It can be difficult to capture the beauty of our national parks in photos. One NPCA staffer shares tips to get more confident with your camera and make your images stand out!
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Blog Post The First National Park Established for Its Biodiversity National parks protect places of national significance, from historic homes to rare fossil sites to areas of scenic beauty. Everglades was the first national park designated specifically to preserve biodiversity.
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Blog Post Supreme Court Ruling Will Harm People and Parks Today's decision will limit the abilities of the Environmental Protection Agency to do its job, and the consequences for the climate could be disastrous.
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Blog Post The Gift of Time NPCA’s president and CEO announces four-day work week for staff
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Blog Post The Long Road to Recovery at Yellowstone On June 13, historic floods severely damaged this iconic park and its surrounding communities. What happens next?
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Blog Post 9 Parks That Tell the Story of Slavery and Abolition On June 19, the nation commemorates the end of institutional slavery in the U.S. These national parks are part of that long journey to freedom.
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Blog Post Take Pride in These 5 Parks Celebrate Pride Month by learning about the not-so-hidden LGBTQ+ history at these national park sites.
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Blog Post The Meaning of Memorial Day How a Gold Star Family member honors the vets around her — and finds solace in the public lands dedicated to them.
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Blog Post The Country’s Largest Desert Is Not Where You Think — and It’s Cold The U.S. is home to four major desert systems, and the largest encompasses a national park of the same name. But it might not be where you expect.
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Blog Post Finding Patriotism in National Parks A veteran shares his ideals with his daughters through his love of public lands
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Blog Post Tips for Seeing Arches During Peak Season After years of frustrating overcrowding problems, staff at Arches National Park launched a timed-entry reservation system last month to ensure more reliable access for park visitors. Here's what to know before you go.
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Blog Post New Report Highlights Strategy to Bring Climate Goals Within Reach Reducing one high-impact pollutant could offer outsized potential to slow the rise in global temperatures — and NPCA’s advocates have already been speaking out for years about this heat-trapping gas.
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Blog Post 3 Reasons We're Excited About ‘Our Great National Parks’ A new Netflix docuseries highlights the splendor of national parks around the world — with a familiar face as host.
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Blog Post Super Blooms: Park Flowers and Where to See Them April is National Native Plant Month. These flowering plants welcome the warmer weather with bursts of color — and national parks are the perfect places to see them.
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Blog Post 6 Ways to Celebrate National Park Week All national parks are waiving their entrance fees on Saturday, April 16, for the kickoff to National Park Week.
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Blog Post Shenandoah, Beyond Old Rag Your reservation didn’t come through. Now what?
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Blog Post NPCA Mourns Passing of Board Chair and Friend Vic Fazio I share my deepest condolences with all who admired this great conservationist, mentor and inspiration.
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Blog Post She Was the First 7 more women who broke barriers at national parks
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Blog Post Trailblazers: Women Who Broke the ‘Green Ceiling’ Women have always been a part of our national parks, even when they weren’t widely recognized for their contributions. This two-part series for Women’s History Month highlights 14 women who broke barriers in their fields.
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Blog Post Commemorating Yellowstone's 150th Birthday with the Park's 'First Family' The world's first national park marks a significant milestone today — but its history reaches much further back than 1872 and involves the stories and cultures of more than two dozen Tribes.
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Blog Post Can Parks Bring Us Together on Climate? As the president shares his State of the Union address with a bitterly divided Congress, love for our parks is one of the few things they can actually agree on — and still fight for.
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Blog Post Telling a Supreme Story Only one national park site specifically interprets the history of a Supreme Court case. The enduring importance of this ruling continues to define what equality means in our systems of education.
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