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• Park Aztec Ruins National Monument The Aztec Ruins National Monument lies along the Animas River in New Mexico and commemorates the largest ancestral Pueblo community in the region, preserving incredible historic buildings, roadways and artifacts from the 11th through the 13th centuries. Park artifacts help visitors understand how the community developed and changed over its 200-year history, from stone and wood tools to pottery to turquoise and obsidian jewelry.
• Park Appomattox Court House National Historical Park Appomattox Court House National Historic Park is the site “where our nation reunited.” On April 9, 1865, the tiny village served as the meeting place for two great generals of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, to work out the conditions of the surrender of Confederate forces. The park preserves some original and some reconstructed buildings, as well as the character of the original town.
• Park Appalachian National Scenic Trail One of the longest and most famous trails in the United States, the Appalachian National Scenic Trail traverses 14 states and leads explorers through mountains, forests, meadows and culturally important lands along the East Coast. Visitors can hike the entire 2,160-mile path between Georgia and Maine, or enjoy parts of the trail on weekend or day hikes.
• Park Badlands National Park This park's sharply textured rock formations share a 244,000-acre landscape with the largest protected mixed-grass prairie in the United States.
• Blog Post 5 Sharks You'll Want to Meet — from a Distance — at National Parks Aug 2020 | By Sarah Duensing Just in time for Shark Week: Learn about some of the most majestic and fascinating wildlife at our coastal parks.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 3905, Minnesota’s Economic Rights in the Superior National Forest Act Nov 2017 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the House Natural Resources Committee ahead of a markup scheduled for November 7-8, 2017.
• Policy Update The Undoing Of Our Public Lands and National Parks Dec 2017 Since the Trump administration began in January 2017, a series of actions taken at the presidential and departmental level have undermined, degraded and outright attacked the laws that protect our public lands and the agencies that manage them.
• Policy Update Testimony: Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act Dec 2015 Written testimony by Joan Frankevich for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on December 3, 2015
• Press Release Sens. Warner, Portman Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Address National Park Service Maintenance Backlog Mar 2017 NPS has a $12 billion backlog in deferred and overdue maintenance – half is critical transportation infrastructure
• Policy Update National Parks Second Century Action Coalition Sep 2018 The National Parks Second Century Action Coalition is a national coalition dedicated to promoting the protection, restoration, and operation of the National Park System to benefit the health and well-being of current and future generations.
• Blog Post Trivia Challenge: The Longest National Park Name Feb 2016 | By Nicolas Brulliard Q: The national park with the largest acreage is the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska, but do you know which national park site has the longest name?
• Blog Post National Park Construction Projects in Jeopardy Jun 2014 | By Emily Douce In Massachusetts, park officials barricaded a bridge leading into Lowell National Historical Park because bricks in the structure could fall on people's heads. In Washington, D.C., a bridge on the George Washington Parkway that leads to Arlington Cemetery and is used daily by thousands of people is so structurally deficient, the National Park Service could close it to heavy vehicles such as tour buses within two years if it isn't repaired. In Wyoming, important sections of the Yellowstone National Park Grand Loop Road are in such need of repair that they threaten visitor safety.
• Press Release Offshore Leasing Plan Threatens National Parks, Wildlife and Coastal Communities Jan 2018 Atlantic, Pacific coasts could be open to leasing for first time in decades.
• Press Release House Approves 1.3 Million Acres of Wilderness, Adds Over 1,000 Miles into the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System Feb 2020 Lands package includes an expansion to Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, over 600,000 acres of new wilderness in Colorado and expanded waterway and wilderness protections near Olympic National Park
• Press Release Blackwell One Step Closer to Becoming National Park Site Nov 2021 The experiences, hardships and triumphs of Mexican American students at this segregated school in West Texas have so much to teach us.
• Blog Post Is Your Representative a Friend of the National Parks? Jul 2013 | By Elise Russell Liguori Does anything ever get done in Washington, D.C.? The news constantly portrays Capitol Hill as a deadlocked and rancorous place where good ideas get shot down in a seemingly endless cycle of partisan wrangling.
• Press Release Clean Air, National Park Advocates Challenge EPA Failure to Protect Grand Canyon from Navajo Generating Station Pollution Oct 2014 Advocates Appeal Decision that Allows Controversial Coal Plant to Keep Polluting for Decades
• Press Release New Survey Shows Public Support for Revitalizing Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Sep 2010 Funding, invasive species, pollution, and access to the park are of top concerns
• Blog Post Emotional and Financial Toll of Government Shutdown Hits Home for National Park Service Personnel Oct 2013 | By Emily Douce More than 21,000 Park Service staff have been furloughed indefinitely, and the park rangers who still have jobs are taking heat for doing their jobs.
• Press Release Justice Prevails for Blackfeet Nation: Appeals court upholds protection of sacred Badger-Two Medicine Jun 2020 Blackfeet traditionalists, sportsmen and conservationists celebrate tremendous victory and urge permanent protections for Badger-Two Medicine
• Press Release National Parks Conservation Association Announces David Lamfrom as Vice President of Regional Programs Nov 2020 Lamfrom will bring focus on community, movement building, and inclusive campaigns to forefront as NPCA’s new Vice President
• Blog Post A National Park Made for Life Lists Jun 2017 | By Jim Stratton No matter what experiences you like to “collect,” Channel Islands has it all — including glimpses of the rare island scrub-jay
• Blog Post How Charles Pinckney Changed My View of National Parks Apr 2016 | By Jim Stratton Exploring America’s most fascinating and least known places: A new series from a traveling park lover.
• Press Release Florida Fisherman and Park Champion to Receive National Award Dec 2021 Dr. Marty Arostegui's work protecting this national treasure will have lasting impacts for our country and future generations of divers, fishers, boaters, and other national park visitors.
• Press Release Groups Defend National Parks From BP Cherry Point Refinery Pollution Jun 2017 NPCA is challenging oil giant BP’s expansion permit in Whatcom County, WA, for failure to protect air quality of Olympic National Park and North Cascades National Park
• Blog Post How National Parks Led Me to My U.S. Citizenship Dec 2016 | By Keiko Takioto Miller Public lands belong to all of us. Sometimes, they help us realize that we belong to them, too.
• Blog Post Trivia Challenge: The Longest Trail in the National Park System Jan 2016 | By Jennifer Errick Q: The National Park System has 18,000 miles of trails through some of the most magnificent parts of the country, from remote wilderness paths to interpretive walking tours along city streets. It also offers some of the most challenging hikes in the country. Can you name the longest trail in the National Park System?
• Press Release Pilot Program at Grand Teton National Park Informs Future of Composting in Teton County Nov 2017 As part of the Zero-Landfill Initiative to reduce the amount of visitor-generated waste that national parks send to the landfills, Grand Teton National Park and Teton County are making great inroads with new composting waste removal efforts.
• Press Release New Dog Rule Refines Access, Protection for 2nd Most Visited National Park Feb 2016 A decade in the making, the proposed dog rule for Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) aims to balance resource protection with the many forms of recreation enjoyed at the 2nd most visited national park site.
• Press Release Victory! New Marine Reserve at Biscayne National Park to Protect Coral Reefs and Replenish Fish Populations Jun 2015 National Park Service announces creation of a marine reserve in Biscayne National Park.
• Press Release National Parks Group Applauds Recommendations to Expand, Greater Protect Santa Monica Mountains Feb 2016 NPCA supports the final "Rim of the Valley" proposal by the National Park Service, which could add 170,000 acres of important waterways, historic and cultural sites, and open spaces to Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
• Press Release County Commission Approves Oil Refinery Next to Theodore Roosevelt National Park Jul 2016 Despite opposition from current and former national park superintendents, the Billings County Commission in North Dakota approved rezoning for an industrial scale oil refinery, to be built less than three miles from Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
• Press Release Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Off-road Vehicle Plan Ignores Threats to Park Resources Mar 2018 The National Park Service’s proposed special regulations for off-road vehicle management at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area misses the mark, ignores park impacts.
• Press Release On the Heels of Proposed Grizzly Delisting, Lawsuit Challenges Wildlife Management at Grand Teton National Park Mar 2016 NPCA is fighting a dangerous, precedent-setting decision by the National Park Service that puts wildlife at risk in Grand Teton National Park.
• NPCA at Work Create a National Park Preserving the Legacy of Julius Rosenwald A Julius Rosenwald and Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park would recognize an important legacy of philanthropy and social justice and be the first national park honoring a Jewish American.
• Park Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial Arlington House, located on a high hill within Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, is one of many national park sites along the George Washington Memorial Parkway. Built by George Washington Parke Custis between 1802 and 1818 to serve as a memorial to his step-grandfather, George Washington, the house is now associated more with the man who married into the family and lived there for 30 years — Civil War General Robert E. Lee.
• Report Center for State of the Parks: Bryce Canyon National Park Current overall conditions of Bryce Canyon’s known natural resources rated a “good” score of 81 out of 100. Overall conditions of the park’s known cultural resources rated 39 out of a possible 100, indicating “poor” conditions.
• Report Center for State of the Parks: Canyonlands National Park Current overall conditions of Canyonlands’ known natural resources rated a “fair” score of 75 out of 100.
• Report Center for State of the Parks: California Desert This report outlines the results of a rigorous examination of natural and cultural resources in Joshua Tree National Park, Death Valley National Park, and Mojave National Preserve.
• Fact Sheet On the Ground Solutions: Saving Pronghorn Our national parks are integral parts of a larger landscape and are deeply connected and vital to the health of surrounding wild lands and gateway communities. In Greater Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park’s 2.2 million acres serve as the core for a diversity of wildlife species that spend part of the year inside the park but must access vital seasonal habitat outside the park to survive.
• Megan Cantrell Former Social Media Manager Megan Cantrell worked at National Parks Conservation Association for 10 years, much of that time shepherding NPCA’s social media program.
• Elizabeth Bradfield ELIZABETH BRADFIELD’S poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Orion, and The Believer; she is the author of the poetry collections Once Removed (forthcoming), Approaching Ice, and Interpretive Work. Bradfield still lives on Cape Cod, where she works as a naturalist. This essay will appear in Permanent Vacation: Twenty Writers on Work and Life in Our National Parks: Volume II, The East, to be published in Spring 2016.
• NPCA at Work Don't Divide Our Habitats, Ecosystems and Communities Oppose new walls and fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.
• NPCA at Work Protect Historic Jamestown The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorized Dominion Energy to construct enormous electric transmission towers throughout a historic landscape without ever preparing an environmental impact statement. But now we have the opportunity to make things right for Historic Jamestown.
• NPCA at Work Preserving the Complicated History at a Segregated Texas School The Blackwell School in Marfa represents a rare opportunity to preserve stories of discrimination and resilience
• NPCA at Work Air Pollution in Colorado: Our Lives and Parks at Risk Colorado suffers from a serious and growing air quality problem, failing year after year to meet federal standards for air that’s healthy and safe to breathe. That needs to change.
• Staff Neal Desai Senior Director of Field Operations Neal joined NPCA's Pacific office in 2004, and is now the Senior Director of Field Operations for this region.
• Stephanie Heidbreder Former Chesapeake Field Representative Stephanie joined NPCA in January 2016 as the Chesapeake Field Representative for the Mid-Atlantic Region.
• Staff Rob Smith Regional Director Rob serves as the Regional Director of NPCA's Northwest Regional Office in Seattle, Washington. Rob’s environmental work has included work on land and wildlife protection, climate change, and air quality through lobbying officials and organizing local support for conservation measures.
• Report The Alaska Citizen's Guide to Natural Gas Permitting This Guide highlights opportunities where citizens can influence agency decisions that affect the impacts and conditions of natural gas development. It encourages Alaskans to take an active role in preserving our public lands and to better ensure a well-informed, site-specific and historically-aware use of natural resources.

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