Search results for “Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park”
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Park Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park commemorates the two-week clash that launched General Sherman's Atlanta campaign during the Civil War.
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Report Protecting Our Chesapeake, Protecting Our National Parks The Chesapeake Bay watershed is home to more than 50 national park units. Shenandoah National Park in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania, and the C&O Canal National Historical Park along the Potomac River are just a few of the parks that share this common bond. Their streams and rivers, along with many others in the expansive watershed, ultimately flow into the Chesapeake Bay, which is recognized as one of America’s Great Waters.
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Park Horseshoe Bend National Military Park Horseshoe Bend National Military Park honors the spot where more than 800 Upper Creek Indians died fighting to keep their ancestral land, which eventually became the state of Alabama.
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Fact Sheet Protecting National Park Landscapes in the Chesapeake Restoring Chesapeake landscapes means protecting our lands, air, and waters.
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Blog Post The Next 11 Parks You Want to Visit Last summer, we asked supporters which national park sites were at the top of your bucket lists. Thousands of you responded. Here are the 11 parks you most want to explore — and why these places are great choices for any traveler’s wish list.
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Blog Post NPCA Petitions Park Service to Safeguard Park Wolves in Wyoming Last September, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) approved a plan to remove gray wolves from the Endangered Species List in Wyoming. This controversial delisting could someday allow state-run wolf hunting within the John D. Rockefeller Parkway, a 24,000-acre national park site that connects Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.
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Magazine Article A Mountain to Climb In Los Angeles, California, the parks of Santa Monica Mountains unite beneath a single banner.
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Blog Post Who Counts? A Closer Look at Parks’ Record Visitation Numbers Every year, the Park Service releases its official statistics on visitation at national park sites around the country. How does the agency come up with these numbers? With vehicle multipliers, regression formulas, and other unusual procedures, the answer is anything but simple.
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Blog Post 5 Inspirational Stories from the Parks Through their spectacular landscapes, magnificent wildlife and rich history, national parks have inspired generations of visitors. But often, it is the people within those parks who move us most. Here are five personal stories of determination, selflessness and healing that show how parks can bring out the best in people.
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Blog Post The Power of Parks National parks are forever. Everything else sure changes, though.
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Blog Post Why Can’t Visitors Walk In to “Open-Air” Parks? National parks are prominent icons representing the very best of America—so it’s not surprising that losing access to these inspirational places is causing heartbreak and anger around the country. When Congress closed the national parks as part of the government shutdown on October 1, it affected hundreds of thousands of visitors, business owners, and workers. Eleven days later, the standoff on Capitol Hill continues.
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Blog Post Super Blooms: Park Flowers and Where to See Them April is National Native Plant Month. These flowering plants welcome the warmer weather with bursts of color — and national parks are the perfect places to see them.
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Blog Post Visiting Rocky Mountain at Peak Season? Not a Problem. An NPCA intern shares her experiences navigating this highly visited park's reservation system — and offers some insights to help make your visit just as successful.
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Blog Post Coastal Parks Offer Climate Solutions NPCA is working to ensure coastal national parks are part of the climate solution. The more we protect national park waters from climate impacts now, the more they will protect us and our parks for generations to come.
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Magazine Article Park Ink This niche community is obsessed with national parks, and these folks have the stamps to prove it.
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Blog Post Your Favorite Park Photos and Stories People around the country have shared some of their most poignant and intriguing moments in national parks on NPCA’s recently relaunched MyParkStory site.
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Press Release Parks Group Raises Warning as Park Service Prepares for Shutdown with No Funding Deal in Sight “As our country barrels towards a government shutdown, our national parks and park staff have no choice but to prepare for the worst-case scenario and that’s closing the parks." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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Blog Post Park Staff Ordered to Violate Laws and Stand Aside as People Trashed Parks During Shutdown Rangers describe the despair of watching national parks sustain preventable long-term damage, as well as the terrible effects the historic standoff has had on morale.
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Press Release Pullman National Monument Leaders Celebrated with National Conservation Award Pullman National Monument Superintendent Teri Gage and Pullman Project Manager Todd Ravesloot celebrated for their innovative and unwavering work to transform Chicago’s first and only national park site.
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Blog Post The 8,000-Year Park NPCA released its Clean Air Timeline today showing how long it will take for 10 national parks to return to natural air quality conditions. One park is missing from the timeline, though—a park that measures way off the chart.
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Blog Post 8 Parks for Experiencing April 8’s Solar Eclipse Get your safety glasses ready! A total solar eclipse April 8 will be seen from Texas to Maine, crossing over 27 national park sites. Check out a few of the parks planning festivities around this event.
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Blog Post One Year Later: Park Service Recommendations for Expanding César Chávez Monument into Comprehensive Historic Park Ever plan a birthday party where no one shows up? Sadly, the César E. Chávez National Monument could not commemorate the one-year anniversary of the park’s dedication on October 8—because the site was closed and the monument’s one dedicated Park Service employee, Superintendent Ruben Andrade, was furloughed due to the federal government shutdown.
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Blog Post The 10 Least-Visited Places in the Park System Take a peek at these underappreciated national gems where only a handful of adventurers go.
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Blog Post Historic 'Parks Package' Passes Congress An FAQ with details on today's enormous bipartisan win for national parks.
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Blog Post 5 Reasons to Celebrate Today’s New National Monuments in the California Desert These new parks will preserve 1.8 million acres in one of the largest and most diverse protected areas of desert lands in the world.
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Policy Update 9 National #ParksInPeril From Arches to Yellowstone, the crown jewels of our National Park System are at a crossroads. And it is up to each of us to determine which path they take.
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Blog Post 9 Romantic Park Trips for You and Your Valentine Whether you want to live it up near the city lights or get away from it all under the starlight, national parks provide a wealth of amorous adventures for you and your Valentine.
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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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Policy Update Position on S. 2177/H.R. 959, S. 651/H.R. 1289, H.R. 2880, S. 1930, S. 119, S. 718, S. 770, S. 1943, S. 1975, S. 1993, S. 2309 NPCA submitted the following positions on legislation being considered by the Subcommittee on National Parks of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources during a hearing on March 17, 2016.
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Blog Post 2022 — What a Year for Parks! We celebrate 2022 for the strides made in protecting parks, preserving land and wildlife, and honoring important sites in our nation’s progress toward equality — accomplishments that could not have been made without our many park advocates.
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Blog Post Parks in Peril: Saving What’s Sacred in the “Backbone of the World” A development threat to the wild lands surrounding Glacier National Park is more than just a danger to the environment. It is an attack on a place of irreplaceable cultural significance.
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Press Release Colorado Could Lead Nation in Fighting Air Pollution, But Isn’t National Parks Conservation Association, Sierra Club, and Earthjustice call for improvements on Colorado’s regional haze plan to better protect air quality and public health.
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Press Release Nature Valley® Celebrates the Third Year of Its Preserve the Parks Program Encourages Americans to Visit National Parks and Support Park Preservation
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Blog Post Significantly Steamy Parks The National Park Service has designated the thermal features such as geysers and fumaroles at 16 national park sites as "significant," a label that affords them more stringent protections. Only one of these parks lies east of the Rockies.
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Park Coronado National Memorial In the 1540s, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado led 339 European soldiers and more than 1000 Aztec allies on a quest for gold through the Southwest. The expedition didn't find treasure, but it did have an enormous impact on the culture of the region. The memorial is located in a region known as Sky Island where four major biogeographic provinces meet. As a result, the park features a varied geology and rich biodiversity.
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Park Anacostia Park Anacostia Park covers more than 1,200 acres on the banks of the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. The park includes Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens, Kenilworth Marsh, and the Langston Golf Course, with facilities for baseball, picnics, basketball and tennis, as well as a pavilion for roller skating and special events.
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Park Tuzigoot National Monument Tuzigoot, which is Apache for "crooked water," is the remnant of a Sinaguan village built between 1125 and 1400. It crowns the summit of a long ridge that rises 120 feet over the Verde Valley. The original pueblo was two stories high in places and had 77 ground-floor rooms.
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Letter Comments on Cross State Air Pollution Rule On behalf of the National Parks Conservation Association, Sierra Club, Altahama Riverkeeper, Appalachian Mountain Club, Environmental Law & Policy Center, Fall-line Alliance for a Clean Environment, Friends of the Chattahoochee, GreenLaw, Midwest Environmental Defense Center, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, Natural Resources Defense Council, Ogeechee Riverkeeper, Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Southern Environmental Law Center, and Wiregrass Energy Network,
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Report Power Plants in the Four Corners Region Map of national parks and power plants in the Four Corners region
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Amy Leinbach Marquis Amy Leinbach Marquis is former associate editor at National Parks magazine.
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Cassie Gogreve Cassie Gogreve a native Angeleno and urban planner, she enjoys any opportunity to get outside and catch a glimpse of the iconic San Gabriel Mountains.
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Staff Mary Chandler Blankenship Mary Chandler joined NPCA in November 2023 after working previously for The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital and the American Hiking Society.
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Liliana Griego Liliana Griego is passionate about connecting people to their natural environment, especially their local one. While growing up in Los Angeles, she never realized that she was living in a biodiversity hotspot. It wasn’t until she left Los Angeles, to study other ecosystems, that she began to appreciate the land she grew up on.
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Fact Sheet Protecting Fort McHenry During the War of 1812, British forces sailed to Baltimore, Maryland, intent on attacking the city. But Baltimore was defended by Fort McHenry - a star-shaped fort perfectly situated on a point jutting into Baltimore Harbor.
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Juan Lazo Bautista Juan Lazo Bautista been a resident of the LA area for almost his entire life since immigrating from Oaxaca, Mexico. After college, Juan realized the importance of staying outdoors and the vital part of our livelihoods based on a healthy relationship with nature.
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