Search results for “Southwest”
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Britte Kirsch Serving as the Regional Coordinator for the Southwest office, Britte organizes and assists with special events throughout the Southwest and acts as an administrative liaison for the regional office.
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Staff Tracy Coppola Tracy Coppola is based in Denver and serves as the Colorado Senior Program Manager for the Southwest Regional Office. She is proud to have the opportunity to celebrate her state's incredible parks and advocates.
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Park Blackwell School National Historic Site This historic three-room schoolhouse in West Texas helps preserve the complex story of segregated education that affected Latino students in the Southwest from the late 19th century until the 1960s.
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Staff Ernie Atencio Ernie Atencio fell in love with parks and wild places at a young age and has spent most of his career working in and for those places.
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Megan Hernbroth As Communications Manager, Megan led media outreach and communications for the Northwest and Southwest regions.
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Park Grand Canyon National Park America’s Southwest is full of breathtaking canyons, but none as famous or as widely visited as the Grand Canyon. This world-famous landmark offers wondrous views, spectacular hiking, exhilarating whitewater rafting and countless adventures. One look across the enormous chasm confirms just why this inspirational place is one of the seven natural wonders of the world and a must-see destination for so many travelers. The park also protects a wealth of biological diversity, including numerous endemic and threatened species and several rare ecosystems.
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Park El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail Take a journey on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail to savor 300 years of heritage and culture in the Southwest. This Spanish colonial "royal road" in New Mexico and Texas originally extended to Mexico City, Mexico.
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Park Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site Shop for dry goods and Navajo art, and tour a 130-year-old family farm at the oldest general store in the Southwest, the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
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Park San Antonio Missions National Historical Park The San Antonio Missions play a key role in telling the story of Spanish colonialists and Native Americans of the Southwest. The park preserves the largest intact concentration of Spanish Colonial buildings in the United States today, including exquisite mission churches with Romanesque, Moorish and Spanish baroque designs dating as far back as 1720. All four missions are still active Catholic parishes and churches.
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Blog Post Climate Change Forces Difficult Decisions Along the Colorado River Without enough water to go around, federal agencies and advocates weigh competing needs of people and threatened fish.
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Press Release BLM Removes Lands Near Zion from Oil, Gas Lease Sale Move will protect national park resources from impacts of energy production.
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Press Release All Pueblo Council of Governors Receives National Conservation Award for Efforts Opposing Oil & Gas Development Near National Parks The National Parks Conservation Association recognizes Pueblo group for protecting Chaco Culture National Historical Park.
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Blog Post What Happens When the Water Runs Out? A short visit to a narrow canyon reveals stories from the distant past on water and climate that feel surprisingly relevant today
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Spotlight An Insider's Guide to the Four Corners Situated on the Colorado Plateau amid ancient volcanic mountains, statuesque buttes and sharp canyons, the Four Corners region where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona meet is rich in cultural and geological wonders.
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Magazine Article What is going to happen to national parks in the next century? We asked a handful of writers, activists, scholars and conservationists about their hopes, dreams and fears about the National Park System. Here’s what they had to say.
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Blog Post The 14 Parks You Can't Get Enough Of The results of our recent poll are in, and we can’t think of a better way to celebrate the National Park Service centennial this month than to share what you, the parks’ biggest advocates, love most in our park system.
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Press Release National Parks Group Challenges Western Federal Oil and Gas Lease Sales Oil, gas development could endanger six national park units in Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming.
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Press Release Lease Sale Near Great Sand Dunes National Park Temporarily Delayed The Bureau of Land Management delayed the sale to allow for time to consult with Navajo Nation
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Magazine Article Battling History Manuel Chaves was a Civil War hero. He also murdered and enslaved Native Americans. How should we remember him?
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Blog Post The 10 Most-Visited Parks — and Less-Visited Side Trips It's no surprise millions of people flock to America's most celebrated national parks. But did you know about these 10 lesser-known sites nearby?
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Press Release Clean Air, National Park Advocates Challenge EPA Failure to Protect Grand Canyon from Navajo Generating Station Pollution Advocates Appeal Decision that Allows Controversial Coal Plant to Keep Polluting for Decades
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Press Release Plaintiff Organizations in Bears Ears And Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Cases Denounce Administration’s Final Management Plans Management Plans Ignore Tribes, Courts and the Public
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Press Release Utah Air Quality Board Approves Regional Haze Plan, Paving the Way for More Air Pollution in National Parks and Local Communities It is unacceptable that Utah is again failing to protect our parks, local economies and visitors, especially at a time when the state so desperately needs bold leadership to combat air pollution problems.
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Blog Post Advocates Save 85,000 Acres in Utah from Oil and Gas Development — for Now A coalition of elected officials, tribal leaders, business owners, outdoor enthusiasts and public land advocates successfully pressured the Bureau of Land Management to remove Moab-area parcels from its oil and gas lease sales next month.
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Blog Post The National Park Site That Was Almost Blown Up It was an explosion that created Sunset Crater in northern Arizona. Another proposed explosion almost led to its demise.
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Press Release Colorado River Rushes Through the Grand Canyon High flow release is welcomed as significant for Grand Canyon National Park resources
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Blog Post Clearing the Air Coming to terms with the Navajo Generating Station’s complicated past and looking toward a greener, more equitable future.
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Press Release National Parks Group Applauds NPS, Colorado National Monument Superintendent's Decision to Deny Permission for Large Sporting Event Cycling Competition Would Limit Access to Park Unit for Visitors, Commercialize a Publically-Owned Site, and Create Excessive Stress on a Protected Environment
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Press Release NPCA Statement on Today's Announcement by Arizona Public Service Co. to Close a Coal-Fired Generator at the Cholla Power Plant Statement by NPCA Senior Program Manager Kevin Dahl
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Blog Post Staff Picks: 11 Spectacular Roads for Riding Your Bike From leisurely rides to challenging climbs, national parks offer riding opportunities for cyclists of all abilities. Check out top recommendations and advice from NPCA enthusiasts on where to go and what to see.
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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 Polluted Parks: Trump Administration Moves to Approve Weak Utah Haze Plan, Threatening Parks and Communities Plan would allow state coal-fired power plants to continue polluting the air we breathe, increasing hazy skies in Utah’s treasured national parks.
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Press Release Groups Urge AZ Governor to Close Uranium Mine in Newly Designated Grand Canyon National Monument The mine, which began extracting uranium ore on January 8, is 7 miles south of Grand Canyon National Park and inside the newly designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.
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Press Release Defending Chaco: New Mexico Conservation Groups Praise State's Decision to Extend Moratorium on Oil and Gas Leasing Nearly 70,000 acres of state land surrounding Chaco Canyon will be protected from oil and gas leasing for the next 20 years.
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Press Release Oil and Gas Development Delayed Near Carlsbad Caverns National Park Bureau of Land Management temporarily deferred lease sales to study the local geology and its interaction with groundwater
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Press Release Utah’s National Parks to Benefit from Innovative Oil and Gas Planning Effort National Parks Group Commends ‘Smart-from-the-Start’ planning for oil and gas in the San Rafael Desert.
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Blog Post 10 Hidden Gems in the National Park System Want to explore a few remarkable places off the beaten path? These 10 NPCA picks offer great ways to escape the crowds while enjoying unique, underappreciated natural and cultural treasures around the country.
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Magazine Article The Space Between Things A writer returns to the Grand Canyon again and again. And again.
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Magazine Article The Grouse Effect An unlikely coalition is fighting to protect the Gunnison sage-grouse.
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Report America's Heritage For Sale Privately owned land within the congressionally designated boundaries of America’s national parks creates gaping holes that shatter the integrity of individual parks and the system as a whole, and make it more difficult and expensive for the Park Service to protect wildlife and the parks’ natural and cultural treasures. Our national heritage is at risk.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Staff David Lamfrom David, the Vice President of Regional Programs, uses his passion and knowledge of our natural, cultural and historical resources to inspire others to learn about and protect our national parks.
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