Search results for “Grand Canyon National Park”
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Park Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument For public lands enthusiasts willing to forego paved roads and cell service, Parashant offers remote overlooks of the Grand Canyon, dark sky viewing, and backcountry camping in a wild landscape replete with desert cactus, ponderosa pines and rugged rock formations.
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Park Wrangell St. Elias National Park & Preserve Covering more than 8 million acres of land, Wrangell-St. Elias is the largest national park site and the largest single wilderness area in the United States.
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Letter Opposition to Legislative Proposals at Cape Hatteras, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton NPCA urges Members of the House to Oppose H.R. 2954 when it comes to the House floor tomorrow. Specifically, NPCA opposes provisions to remove protections at Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Title V) and Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks (Title VII).
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Park Muir Woods National Monument It’s possible, after a short walk in this national monument, to completely forget that downtown San Francisco is less than 15 miles away. This relatively small park, which is part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area, contains an impressive diversity of plants and animals, including an intact old-growth coast redwood forest and habitat that supports many ferns, wildflowers, small birds and mammals, and several federally listed species. Naturalist John Muir himself called the park "the best tree-lovers monument that could possibly be found in all the forests of the world."
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Report Growing Visitation in Utah’s National Parks Just over 14.4 million people from around the world visited Utah’s 13 national park units in 2016, a 21% increase from 2015 alone. People flock to these iconic landscapes to hike to breathtaking vistas, contemplate dark, starry night skies, and experience awe-inspiring sunsets over the parks’ famous sandstone spires and arches.
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Infographic Our Parks Badly Need Repairs Our national parks, from the Grand Canyon to Gettysburg, need billions of dollars in repairs. Congress and the president must work together to fix our parks and help the local and national economies they support.
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Park New Philadelphia National Historic Site Frank McWorter, a formerly enslaved man from Kentucky, founded the town of New Philadelphia in 1836. It is the first known town planned and legally registered by an African American before the Civil War.
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Park Devils Tower National Monument Scientists debate how Devil’s Tower was formed, but agree that about 65 million years ago, molten lava was forced into existing hard rock formations, cooling and eroding over millions of years into this striking formation that stands 1,267 feet above the landscape. The site is sacred to the Lakota people and many other Plains Tribes, and President Theodore Roosevelt declared it the nation's first national monument in 1906.
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Resource How to Host a Park Volunteer Event Hosting a park volunteer event is an empowering act that flexes your leadership skills, helps our parks and engages new people. Learn how with this step-by-step guide.
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Magazine Article A Wing and a Prayer Want to spot a Colima warbler in the United States? Head to Big Bend National Park—and cross your fingers.
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Blog Post Civil War-Era Cemetery and Hospital Found Under Water A small, long-submerged island is revealing Civil War mysteries in Dry Tortugas National Park. The National Park Service is conducting an in-depth survey to learn more.
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Blog Post Trivia Challenge: A Stockpile of Cold War History Q: Numerous national park sites commemorate military engagements. Only one specifically interprets the history of the standoff that estranged two superpowers for more than four decades and threatened the future of life on Earth: the Cold War. Can you name this national park site?
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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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Blog Post Protecting the Wilderness at Drakes Estero Americans are captivated by wilderness; it comes in all shapes and sizes, from the forested Olympic National Park to the river of grass in the Everglades. Thanks to U.S. Secretary Ken Salazar, Americans can now experience the majestic beauty of the first marine wilderness area on the West Coast: Drakes Estero, in Point Reyes National Seashore.
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Blog Post The 10 Best Places to See Fall Foliage Each autumn, nature puts on an artistic display as hardwood trees change color. The following national parks offer some of the best fall foliage in the United States.
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Magazine Article Winter Wonderland After a 15-year battle to reduce the noise and pollution from snowmobiles, a happy ending in Yellowstone National Park.
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Blog Post A Renaissance in Flamingo Thanks to NPCA’s decades-long work, a new visitor center has opened at Flamingo in Everglades National Park and the area’s namesake birds are returning.
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Magazine Article The Wolverine Way Despite a ferocious reputation, the wolverine is far more complex than the legends that surround it. And even in a place as vast and wild as Glacier National Park, its future is uncertain.
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Magazine Article The Voice of Glacier Ranger Doug Follett reflects on 50 Years at Glacier National Park.
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Blog Post The Oldest River in North America? One national park river is widely regarded as the oldest river in North America, formed an estimated 260 million to 325 million years ago — although not all scientists agree the claim is true.
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Blog Post The Power of One A generous donor saves 30 acres from development in Zion National Park — but the fight to continue preserving vulnerable lands like these continues.
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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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Blog Post The Country’s Largest Desert Is Not Where You Think — and It’s Cold The U.S. is home to four major desert systems, and the largest encompasses a national park of the same name. But it might not be where you expect.
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Blog Post Fleeting Beauty: 9 Natural Phenomena You Won’t Want to Miss National parks offer remarkable experiences no matter the hour or the season. Sometimes, though, it helps to be in the right place at the right time to witness something extraordinary. You have to think ahead to catch these nine ephemeral delights — so start planning now!
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Press Release Near Canyonlands, BLM Moves to Lease First and Ask Questions Later “Rather than striking a balance between energy development and national park protection, this administration continues to lease first, and ask questions later."
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Magazine Article Mountain Kingdom Explore America’s last frontier in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve
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Magazine Article Elwha: A River Reborn A new book from a reporter and photographer at The Seattle Times documents the long and successful battle to remove dams on the Elwha River in Olympic National Park.
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Magazine Article A Tiny Discovery Researchers recently discovered a new species in Great Basin National Park. But will its habitat go down the drain?
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Magazine Article Electrifying Parks Will national parks build enough electric vehicle charging stations to meet the growing demand? An EV devotee sets out for Yellowstone to get some answers.
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Press Release EPA's Proposed Texas Haze Plan Will Keep Air Across Our National Parks Hazy Proposed EPA Haze Plan fails to require modern pollution controls on Texas Coal plants
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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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Press Release World Fishing Network Partners with the National Parks Conservation Association in a Year-Round Effort to Raise Awareness for America's Great Waters New Partnership Seeks to Advance Restoration of America's Great Waters
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Press Release Country-Rock Songstress Doreen Taylor Releases Single to Benefit National Parks Conservation Association, Bring Awareness to Parks Taylor debuts song at NPCA's Salute to the Parks Gala
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Magazine Article Tour de Greg The feel-good sports film “Hard Miles” is inspired by the true story of a man who takes at-risk youth across the country on homemade bicycles.
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Magazine Article The Lassen Effect Discovering Bumpass Hell, Chaos Jumbles, and the Many Marvels of Lassen Volcanic National Park.
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Press Release Supreme Court Guts EPA’s Ability to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Pollution, Escalating the Climate Crisis in National Parks and Communities Today’s decision creates a fallout of implications for public lands and ecosystems that will be felt for generations.
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Press Release Fran Ulmer to Chair National Parks Conservation Association Board of Trustees Former lieutenant governor of Alaska to serve as chair of NPCA's Board of Trustees
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Magazine Article Pines in Peril Grand Teton’s lodgepole forests are exquisitely adapted to wildfire — but can they survive a changing climate?
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 1373, H.R. 2181 & H.R. 823 NPCA submitted the following positions to the House of Representatives ahead of floor votes scheduled for the week of October 28, 2019.
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Madison Sears Madison is a senior environmental science student based in San Antonio who is passionate about protecting and educating about our National Parks. She hopes to spread the word about the beautiful national parks in and across Texas.
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Video Because of You Thank you for your steadfast support of NPCA and your national parks. Our critically important work protecting the parks is only possible because of members and supporters like you!
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Staff Cassidy Jones Born and raised in Utah, Cassidy comes to NPCA with an inborn interest in parks, public lands, and political-cultural conflict.
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Staff Maude Dinan Maude is motivated by efforts that foster our alignment with nature, one another, and collective well-being. Always drawn to natural spaces, Maude believes protecting public lands offer scalable practices to address some of our most concerning issues, such as social injustice, mental illness, and climate change.
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Blake Borwig Blake Borwig is an Environmental Scientist based in central Kentucky working to improve air quality within the Bluegrass state.
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Kayuri Bhimani Kayuri Bhimani is a Senior Investment Associate with Blue Haven Initiative, an organization operating at the intersection of climate action, emerging markets, and impact.
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