Search results for “Charles Flynn”
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Blog Post How Charles Pinckney Changed My View of National Parks Exploring America’s most fascinating and least known places: A new series from a traveling park lover.
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Blog Post Reconnecting a Desert Town with Its River Situated in the corner of the Southwest where Arizona, California, and Mexico converge, the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area (YCNHA) has literally been shaped by the Colorado River. Two granite outcroppings narrowed the river at Yuma, allowing safe passage on what was once a wild and uncontrollable waterway. Some 60,000 people passed through Yuma during the California Gold Rush of 1849, and later, the first rail and car bridge across the Colorado River was built here.
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Magazine Article On the Map Two new national monuments celebrate American heroes forged during the nation’s darkest times.
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Press Release Parents, Small Business Owners, Others Meet with EPA, Interior Officials to Urge Better Air Quality at National Parks Advocates from Across the U.S. Appeal to Obama Administration to Protect Their Parks, Businesses, and Families from Dirty Air
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Magazine Article Remember Aunt Harriet She taught them courage and endurance. Now, Harriet Tubman’s descendants can pay their respects at a park honoring the great liberator.
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Magazine Article 'Harsh is Truth' In this divisive political era, is it possible for the Park Service to support contemporary art that grapples with hot-button issues from immigration to climate change? At these parks, the answer is yes.
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Press Release Nearly 90 Tourism, Cultural Heritage, Conservation, and National Parks Groups Fight House Attack on National Monuments Organizations Call on House Leadership to Oppose HR 1459
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Blog Post The Attack on the Antiquities Act In a move that alarmed the conservation community last month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1459, legislation that would restrict the president’s powers to designate new national monuments under the Antiquities Act. Known as the Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act or “EPIC,” H.R. 1459 ironically spells an epic failure for conservation values in Congress.
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Press Release Parks for All of Us: National Park Service Launches LGBT Study Initiative Statement by Clark Bunting, President and CEO of the National Parks Conservation Association
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Magazine Article Bearing Witness Bearcams in Katmai National Park and Preserve are capturing impressive scenes from the wild—and changing the nature of park visitation.
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Magazine Article John Brown’s Soul John Brown hoped to end slavery when he raided a federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859. His plan failed, but he still changed the course of history.
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Magazine Article A Whale’s Last Song After a renowned humpback whale was killed by a cruise ship, her carefully preserved remains were transformed into one of the biggest whale-skeleton exhibits in the country.
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Press Release Gillibrand & Nadler with National Parks Conservation Association Launch Campaign at Historic Stonewall Inn in New York City to Create First Ever National Park Site Honoring America’s LGBT History National Campaign Urges President Obama to Designate First National Monument for LGBT Equal Rights at Historic Site of Stonewall Rebellion
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Magazine Article If a Tree Falls, They’ll Hear it An innovative tool calculates the level of noise pollution across the country.
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Blog Post 9 Spooky National Park Sites As the days get shorter, the nights get spookier—at least during the month of October. If you’re looking for a few mysterious places to explore before telling ghost stories by the campfire, these quaint and curious settings offer tricks and treats for an eerie autumn mood.
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Magazine Article A Quest to Remember 116,000 Americans were killed in World War I. Why has it taken a century to build a national memorial in Washington, D.C.?
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Magazine Article A Complicated Past Is the U.S. Ready for a National Park Site Devoted to Reconstruction?
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Press Release New Bill in Congress Would Create First National Park Site Dedicated to LGBT History Legislation Would Preserve Historic Site and Stories of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion
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Magazine Article Then and Now Out with unchecked looting and feeding the bears. In with prescribed fire and zero waste. What a difference 100 years has made for the National Park Service.
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Press Release Hundreds of People Voice Support for New National Park Commemorating Women's Equality Today’s public meeting part of ongoing process to establish new national park site
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Press Release Unanimous Support for Creating First National Park Site for LGBT History Shared at Public Meeting in New York City Hundreds attend public discussion on proposal to honor location of Stonewall Uprising as the first national park site dedicated to LGBT equal rights.
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Blog Post Hamilton: More Than a Musical! NPCA’s traveling park lover delves into the fascinating life of the Founding Father who has become Broadway’s latest sensation
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Blog Post Placing Washington, D.C. The paradox of how 10 square miles between Maryland and Virginia became the nation’s capital — through a culture of slavery and a coincidence of geography
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Magazine Article A Campsite Grows In Brooklyn Snowy egrets, oversize bagels and old-time charm in the city that never sleeps.
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Magazine Article Desert Gator The life and times of an unlikely resident of Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument.
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Blog Post Trivia Challenge: The Only WWII Land Battle Fought in North America Next year will be the 75th anniversary of the only land battle fought in North America during World War II. That battle, one of the war’s deadliest, took place at what is now a national park site. Can you guess which park?
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Press Release Congressman Schiff, Senator Feinstein Announce Legislation to Expand Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area The Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act, introduced by Representative Adam Schiff and Senator Dianne Feinstein, would expand the boundary of Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to include sites ranging from Griffith Park to the Santa Clarita Valley.
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Press Release Groups Challenge Federal Loophole That Exempts Polluters from Cleaning Air at National Parks and Wilderness Areas Legal arguments heard in U.S. Federal Court of Appeals in Washington, DC.
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Blog Post 10 Facts You Might Not Know About Frederick Douglass, in Honor of His 200th Birthday This famed abolitionist’s story is even more fascinating than what many of us learn in school.
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Magazine Article 500 Islands, 2 Paddlers, 1 Scrabble Board The writer and his wife’s aunt pack up their gear and grub, hop into a canoe, and venture into Minnesota’s Voyageurs National Park.
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