Search results for “Kalaupapa National Historical Park”
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Report Center for State of the Parks: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park In recognition of the important historical and natural resources protected within Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, the National Parks Conservation Association's Center for State of the Parks conducted an assessment to determine current conditions of the park's resources.
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Report Center for State of the Parks: Vicksburg National Military Park In recognition of the importance of Vicksburg National Military Park's resources, NPCA's Center for State of the Parks completed an assessment to determine the conditions of those resources.
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Press Release 10 Years in the Making: Final Fisheries Management Plan Seeks to Improve Fish Populations at Biscayne National Park More is needed including creation of marine reserve to protect the park's vital coral reef habitat
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Press Release Trump Proposals Fail National Parks Park repairs come at expense of cuts to budget and environmental protections.
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Press Release There Will be Bird Deaths: California Energy Commission Announces Preliminary Approval for Solar Tower Near Joshua Tree National Park Proposed decision to approve construction is dangerous to wildlife and park landscapes
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Press Release Legal Settlement Allows National Park Marine Wilderness Restoration to Begin in Point Reyes National Seashore Settlement agreement protects the West Coast’s first marine wilderness at Drakes Estero
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Blog Post The Only National Park Planetarium National parks are some of the last, best places in the country to experience naturally dark night skies. Only one U.S. national park site features a planetarium to help visitors learn about the cosmos.
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Press Release Southern Utah National Parks Threatened by BLM Oil and Gas Lease Sale New oil and gas lease sales threaten Arches and Canyonlands National Parks as well as Hovenweep National Monument and its surrounding cultural landscape.
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Blog Post 5 Ways You Helped Improve National Park Air in 2015—and Another Way to Take Action Americans can breathe more deeply thanks to five important victories NPCA and its advocates won in 2015 that will help improve the air quality in our national parks. Here's what these victories will mean—and a new way you can take action to help hold more polluters accountable.
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Blog Post Could Space Exploration Harm National Parks? Two proposed new spaceports would be sited alarmingly close to national seashores in Florida and Georgia and, if approved, could cause serious harm to protected lands.
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Press Release With Repeal of Clean Power Plan, Administration Prioritizes Polluters over the Health of People and National Parks "Administrator Pruitt continues to put the interests of polluters over the air that we breathe, and denies facts about climate science and the effective actions required to protect the public and our parks.”
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Report Working Assets: Reinvesting in National Parks This report highlights several of the more than $2.5 billion worth of job-creating projects in national parks and encourages Congress and the incoming Obama Administration to include national parks in economic recovery legislation to create jobs and restore our national treasures.
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Press Release Refinery Threatens Theodore Roosevelt National Park Requested water use would harm park, visitor experience
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Press Release Desert Plan Rollbacks Threaten National Park Wildlife, Communities and Culture Rollbacks could threaten crucial protections including for the Silurian Valley outside of Death Valley, and lands surrounding Joshua Tree National Park, Mojave National Preserve and other wildlife-rich lands.
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Magazine Article A National Park Is Born White Sands National Monument becomes the country’s 62nd national park. What will change?
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Blog Post Where to Touch a Dinosaur, and Other Incredible National Park Fossil Sites Cool creatures from the past and where to see them
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Press Release Wilderness Victory for National Parks Interior Secretary Salazar Protects West Coast's First Marine Wilderness Area at Drakes Estero in Point Reyes National Seashore
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Press Release Successful Land Exchange Moves Forward to Preserve Grand Teton National Park Land purchase is major step toward future preservation of park's landscapes
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Blog Post Call Me Ranger … National Park Ranger With the recent release of Skyfall, the new James Bond adventure, I’m reminded of how my love of the secret agent’s adventures and my passion for national parks led to writing a Bond-style thriller, set in Yellowstone National Park.
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Press Release Omnibus Proposal a Boost for National Parks More funding for park repairs, wildfires.
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Press Release Government Shutdown Closes National Parks Nationwide Hurts Local Economies, Planned Family Vacations & America's National Heritage
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Press Release Parks Group Champions Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area The Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area would protect stories of our nation's diverse heritage, from pre-colonial Native American cities to early American rural life to the American Civil Rights Movement and beyond.
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Press Release Congressman Matt Cartwright Joins Advocacy Groups to Discuss Potential Impacts of Fracking Near National Parks and Trails Discussion examines the impact of existing, proposed, and potential oil and gas development near America's parks
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Press Release New Report: One of America’s Most Visited National Parks Only Accessible for Some Parks group identifies transportation improvements for Gateway, including ferry, bus and bicycle options.
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Press Release Press Telephone Briefing Today RE: Shutdown of National Parks Nationwide Federal Government Shutdown Hurts Local Economies, Planned Family Vacations & America's National Heritage
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Blog Post Transmission Lines in Everglades National Park? No Thanks! Victory for Everglades National Park: Massive transmission lines will NOT be built within park boundaries.
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Press Release America's Great Outdoors Report Provides A Promising Vision for Connecting Americans to Our National Parks New conservation plan helps preserve and connect Americans to our national heritage
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Press Release National Parks and Public Lands Are Key to President Biden’s Plan to ‘Build Back Better’ President Biden ran on the promise to build our nation back better, and our national parks, public lands and waters play a critical role in achieving this ambitious goal.
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Press Release Finalized Moab Energy Plan Protects National Parks New Administration Should Embrace Process Promoting Local Input on Federal Lands Leasing
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Press Release Administration to Gut Environmental Law that Protects Public Health, Environment and National Parks "The administration’s rewrite of the National Environmental Policy Act is one of their most egregious acts to undermine environmental protections & the public voice." -- NPCA President and CEO Theresa Pierno
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Press Release President Trump’s Proposed Budget Cuts Target National Parks This budget is yet another example of the lack of understanding and respect this administration has for the significance of our parks.
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Blog Post If Americans Overwhelmingly Love Our National Parks, Why Isn’t Congress Fully Funding Them? If lawmakers continue chipping away at the National Park Service budget and offering only short-term funding solutions, we will continue to see cutbacks, closures, crumbling infrastructure, and disrepair in these places we love—the very places that should represent the best we have to offer as a nation.
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Blog Post Fracking and National Park Wildlife Every year, fracking for natural gas and oil moves closer to national park boundaries, posing threats to park wildlife that science is only beginning to understand.
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Fact Sheet Avoiding A Risky Gamble With America’s National Parks: A Smarter Approach To Oil Shale And Tar Sands In The West The Bureau of Land Management is considering allocating up to 2.5 million acres of public lands in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado for new commercial leases to develop oil shale and tar sands.
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Park Cabrillo National Monument This park celebrates the explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the first European to set foot on the California coast. A museum exhibition documents Cabrillo's life and travels, as well as early California native peoples and industries. The site also features abundant natural beauty: hillsides covered with flowers, birds nesting in the trees and lizards darting across every pathway. A lookout point near the park's Old Point Loma Lighthouse provides one of the best places anywhere on land to observe migrating gray whales.
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James D. Nations Trained as an ecological anthropologist, Dr. James D. Nations has spent the past 25 years working for the protection of natural ecosystems and cultural heritage in the tropics and the United States. Before joining the National Parks Conservation Association as head of the Center for Park Research, James worked 13 years with Conservation International, serving as Vice President for Mexico and Central America, Vice President for Latin America, and Vice President for Development Agency Relations.
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Park Canaveral National Seashore Canaveral National Seashore is located on a barrier island off the east coast of Florida that features unspoiled beaches and over 100 middens — heaps of shells, broken pottery and discarded arrowheads left by the Timucuan Indians who were the area's first known inhabitants. The park also features remnants of a deserted Florida town settled by land speculators who settled on Mosquito Lagoon after the Civil War.
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Park Buffalo National River The Buffalo is America's first national river and one of the last undammed rivers in the contiguous United States. Its 135 miles flow freely through beautiful Ozark forests and bluffs of limestone and sandstone, offering challenging whitewater conditions in the upper section and calmer Class I rapids in the middle and lower sections. There are not many roads or established overlooks in the park; the best way to experience the beauty of the water is to be out on it, navigating the cliffs, springs, waterfalls and multicolored rock. Just be alert and prepared for fast-changing conditions.
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Fact Sheet Park Friends of the Colorado River NPCA's Colorado River Program, launched in 2011, harnesses the iconic power of national parks, their broad public and political support, their capacity to engage and educate, as well as protect and improve the health of the land and water within which national parks reside.
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Park Buck Island Reef National Monument This Caribbean park protects a small uninhabited island and the pristine elkhorn coral barrier reef that surrounds it, all about a mile and a half off the coast of St. Croix. Considered one of the finest marine gardens in the Caribbean, the monument protects a pristine underwater environment and habitat for rare and threatened species, including endangered leatherback and hawksbill turtles. Snorkelers can enjoy an interpretive underwater trail, one of only three such trails in the country.
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Park Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument Within the Gila Wilderness lies Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, unique structures built inside caves by the Mogollon people during the 13th and early 14th centuries.
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Victory Great American Outdoors Act The Great American Outdoors Act is providing crucial funding – up to $6.65 billion over five years – to fix our national parks’ crumbling roads, decaying buildings, outdated water systems and many more repair needs.
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NPCA at Work Find Your Voice The Find Your Voice initiative engaged a new generation of advocates to speak up for parks through a series of special events and hands-on projects during the 2016 National Park Service centennial.
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NPCA at Work The Problem with Methane Methane is a powerful pollutant that speeds the warming of our climate. Oil and gas development is responsible for most of the methane emissions in the United States, as well as other pollution, which together creates smog that threatens public health and our national parks.
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Liz Ackley As Associate Director of Foundation Relations, Liz Ackley writes and manages grants for NPCA’s regional and national programs. Her favorite national park is Yosemite.
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Valerie Naylor Valerie Naylor is the former superintendent of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. She currently serves as a consultant to NPCA’s Northern Rockies Region.
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Heather Lukacs and Scott Kirkwood Heather Lukacs is a program manager for NPCA’s West Virginia Field Office, and a founding member of the New River Clean Water Alliance; Lukacs has led white-water rafting excursions through the gorge since she was a high school senior. Scott Kirkwood is the editor in chief of National Parks magazine; his first white-water rafting trip was on the New River 20 years ago.
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NPCA at Work Reimagining the Mississippi River Help support a healthy, accessible Mississippi National River and Recreation Area.
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NPCA at Work Keep Crater Lake Wild A wilderness designation will preserve Crater Lake, its wildlife and its outdoor recreation opportunities forever. It's time to give this iconic park the protection it deserves.
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Staff Rachel Mentzer Rachel Mentzer joined NPCA in 2015 and serves as the organization’s Director of Special Events. Based in the headquarters office in Washington, D.C., Rachel focuses on creating and implementing an overall vision for NPCA’s largest events, including Salute to the Parks and New York Gala.
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