Search results for “Robert Garcia”
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Blog Post 10 National Park Cameos in Movies Check out — or revisit — these 10 films where parks played a starring role.
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Magazine Article Astronauts on Planet Earth Following in the footsteps of an early adventurer, an intrepid group explores the surreal landscape at Craters of the Moon National Monument.
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Magazine Article Naming Matters Should Devils Tower be called Bear Lodge? Is Tacoma a better moniker than Mount Rainier? Around the country, activists are fighting to change place names they deem offensive, hurtful or arbitrary, and national parks are frequently the targets of these campaigns.
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Magazine Article Seeing the Light A weekend getaway to the country’s only national park site devoted to painting.
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Blog Post Focus on Water: Celebrating Everglades Victories and Looking Forward Coalition harnesses bipartisan enthusiasm to set priorities for Everglades funding and revitalization
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Blog Post Saving a Piece of History at Harpers Ferry Four historically significant acres at risk of becoming a mini-mart will now be preserved as part of the national park.
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Blog Post Objects at Hand: 10 Curious Park Artifacts The National Park Service manages one of the largest museum systems in North America, preserving more than 45 million artifacts, from the artful to the odd.
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Magazine Article A Momentous Arrival Four hundred years ago, a pirate ship carrying enslaved Africans pulled into Point Comfort in Virginia. Was it the beginning of slavery in this country?
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Magazine Article Beyond the Views How smells bring national parks to life — and why we need to protect those aromas.
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Magazine Article Wild West Josie Did Josie Bassett Morris meet outlaw Butch Cassidy in a cabin that’s now part of Dinosaur National Monument decades after his supposed death?
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Blog Post If These Parks Could Talk 150 years ago, Grant’s Overland Campaign changed the course of the Civil War. See where it happened this spring.
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Blog Post Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Last Year He was a visionary leader whose vision didn't always match with those he led; on the 50th anniversary of King's assassination, NPCA's cultural affairs director reflects on the tumult and joy of his final days.
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Blog Post '100% Community-Driven' Teresa Baker has inspired thousands of people of color to visit national parks, and she has a vision for how the National Park Service can, too.
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Blog Post Trivia Challenge: A Rare and Isolated Community Q: National parks help interpret diverse aspects of American culture, including unusual and exceptional stories from our country’s past. One unique park site preserves the history of a particularly rare and isolated kind of community: a Hansen’s disease settlement (commonly known as a leper colony). Can you name this park where former patients still live today?
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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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Press Release Groups Go To Court to Protect Buffalo National River from Factory Hog Farm Waste Lawsuit challenges federal loan guarantees for industrial swine facility in the Buffalo National River watershed
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Magazine Article The Farthest Edge Chasing solitude — and Thoreau — on the Outer Beach of Cape Cod National Seashore.
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Magazine Article Cosmic Vibes Abound Gram Parsons and his musical legacy at Joshua Tree
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Press Release Restore the Grizzly Bear to the North Cascades The time to restore grizzly bears in the North Cascades Ecosystem is now.
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Press Release Lawsuit Challenges Trump Plan to Frack, Drill 1 Million Acres of California Public Lands, Minerals NPCA is fighting a fracking plan that could allow drilling near Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, which already suffer from some of the worst air quality in the country.
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Blog Post The Forgotten Boy at Carlsbad Caverns One staff member reflects on how the stories of Latinos are told — or not told — and how we can do better at preserving this history.
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Blog Post The Other Washington Monument The marble obelisk on the National Mall is one of the country’s most famous structures — but it is not the oldest monument honoring America’s first president.
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Magazine Article Early Birds & Night Owls Could a trio of devoted birders break a Washington, D.C., bird-watching record set in 1989?
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Blog Post The First Park with a Million Visitors The 1930s brought big changes to the National Park System, setting the stage for large increases in tourism, including the first national park site to welcome more than 1 million annual visitors.
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Press Release Parks Group Hails New and Diverse National Park System Advisory Board “We look forward to working with this group to ensure that we are doing everything we can to preserve and protect our nation’s most inspirational places." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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Blog Post He Built Schools to Fight Injustice, and I Want You to Know His Story Why I am working to help establish a national park site to preserve Julius Rosenwald’s legacy — the first national park site that will honor a Jewish American.
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Policy Update Position on S.225, S.298, S.327, S.774, and S.1152 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources ahead of a business meeting to discuss pending legislation scheduled for December 12, 2019.
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Magazine Article Of Cats and Men Gettysburg’s Civil War Tails offers a cat’s-eye view of battle.
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Blog Post The Only Nobel Prize-Winning U.S. Playwright Two-thirds of America’s national park sites were created to preserve history and culture — but relatively few represent achievements in the arts and humanities. One notable exception is the park site preserving the home of Eugene O’Neill, the only U.S. playwright to win a Nobel Prize.
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Magazine Article Wilderness Preserved Walmart withdraws plans for a Virginia superstore atop the nerve center of a key Civil War battle.
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