Search results for “Kings Mountain National Military Park”
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Park Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park commemorates the rich heritage of the Shenandoah Valley and the Cedar Creek Civil War battlefield where two future presidents — Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley — served.
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Park Catoctin Mountain Park Visitors to Catoctin Mountain Park find streams replete with native trout; forests of maple, hickory, ash, oak and cherry trees; and air alive with the sounds of birds, chipmunks and other wildlife. The park’s beauty is a triumph of nature’s ability to heal: the area was devastated by logging and agriculture during the 18th and 19th centuries. Catoctin Mountain is also the site of the presidential retreat, Camp David.
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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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Press Release Tribal and National Parks Groups File Lawsuit to Defend Mojave Desert Sacred Lands, Wildlife and Water from Cadiz Lawsuit challenges a fast-tracked decision in the final days of the Trump administration that threatens Mojave National Preserve and a deeply sacred cultural landscape for California Tribes.
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Press Release Conservation Groups Challenge Approval of Power Line Planned to Cut Through Treasured National Parks Susquehanna-Roseland line through New Jersey and Pennsylvania to cause significant harm to national parks
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Magazine Article A National Park Is Born White Sands National Monument becomes the country’s 62nd national park. What will change?
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Blog Post Trading Desk Time for Desert Time at Saguaro National Park At NPCA, we are often fortunate enough to attend staff trainings, retreats, and other work-related gatherings in or near national parks. Since my job involves lots of time sitting at a desk with a computer, I look forward to these opportunities.
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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 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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Press Release New Poll Finds National Parks Are Unifying, Bipartisan Issue in West Virginia Across party lines, West Virginians support their representatives in Congress taking a strong stand in supporting policies to protect and strengthen national parks.
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Blog Post If You Want Jobs and Justice, Keep Our National Parks Open The National Park Service needs to do more to connect diverse communities with public lands — and we need to support and fund these efforts.
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Blog Post 11 of the Quirkiest National Park Animals While a few types of wildlife like bears, moose, and wolves capture the imagination of throngs of tourists, there are many rare, charming, and oddly adapted species in national parks that get far less attention. Here are 11 of the quirkiest, as picked by NPCA staff.
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Press Release Interior Ignores Joshua Tree National Park, Wildlife with Eagle Crest Project Approval In a move that threatens Joshua Tree National Park, wildlife and precious water resources, the Bureau of Land Management took the next step towards approving the contentious Eagle Crest pumped storage facility.
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Blog Post Visits to National Parks in 2015 Top 300 Million for the First Time National parks saw their highest visitation ever in 2015, with more than 307 million recreational visits. This marks a nearly 5% increase from 2014.
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Blog Post National Parks Witnessed Record-Breaking Visitation in 2016 The National Park Service releases new data showing more than 330 million visits during its centennial, up more than 7 percent from 2015
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Blog Post If Americans Overwhelmingly Love Our National Parks, Why Isn’t Congress Fully Funding Them? If lawmakers continue chipping away at the National Park Service budget and offering only short-term funding solutions, we will continue to see cutbacks, closures, crumbling infrastructure, and disrepair in these places we love—the very places that should represent the best we have to offer as a nation.
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Blog Post Fracking and National Park Wildlife Every year, fracking for natural gas and oil moves closer to national park boundaries, posing threats to park wildlife that science is only beginning to understand.
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Blog Post 4 Ways President Obama Can Create a Lasting National Park Legacy Last month, President Obama took the podium at Everglades National Park to publicly address the seriousness of climate change. That he chose the world-famous River of Grass as the setting for his Earth Day speech was no accident: Rising ocean levels and other effects of climate change threaten the very existence of this landmark park.
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Press Release New Dog Rule Refines Access, Protection for 2nd Most Visited National Park A decade in the making, the proposed dog rule for Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) aims to balance resource protection with the many forms of recreation enjoyed at the 2nd most visited national park site.
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Press Release Even with Funding Deal, Trump Declares National Emergency, Introducing New Threat to National Parks Construction of a border wall in biodiverse areas like the Rio Grande Valley would damage delicate park landscapes and block wildlife migration.
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Press Release Made in America: New Report Finds National Parks at a Tipping Point Leading Into Super Committee Deadline National Parks Group Urges the Need for Wise Investments to Support Jobs and Communities Nationwide
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Press Release National Parks Continue to Set Visitation Records but Remain Underfunded and Understaffed The 2021 visitation report continues to prove what we have long known to be true - America’s beloved national parks are popular. At odds with this steady surge in visitation is an alarming decline in park staffing.
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Blog Post National Park Rangers Are Helping These 10 Animals and Plants Survive National parks offer some of the last suitable habitats for a number of species and are home to creatures that exist nowhere else in the world. This means park staff play a key role in saving some of the rarest animals and plants from being lost forever.
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Blog Post Why Science Matters for National Parks National parks have a long history of supporting scientific discovery. Let’s continue to fund the world-class research at our country’s most iconic and inspirational places.
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Press Release Bipartisan Compromise House Bill Proposes Dedicated Funding for National Park Repairs The Restore Our Parks and Public Lands Act includes robust investment in national parks’ $11.6 billion repairs backlog.
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Blog Post An 'Elk National Park'? More than a century ago, conservationists set out to protect a large swath of land to save a fast-disappearing herd of Roosevelt elk — and nearly named a national park after them.
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Press Release Congress Green Lights Funding Increase For National Park Roadways National park roadways to receive 18 percent increase in transportation funding
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Blog Post No, National Parks Are Not America’s 'Best Idea' Could the way some enthusiasts refer to national parks actually alienate the diverse supporters the parks need?
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Press Release Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Park Service Must Take Bold Action to Protect Biscayne National Park Marine Wildlife Decades of overfishing have severely depleted Biscayne’s reef fish, and it’s time for Florida and the Park Service to take action to protect them.
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Press Release New Studies Find Revolutionary War Parks Require Additional Funding To Preserve America's Heritage Local national park sites offer family-friendly educational opportunities year-round
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Press Release Kentucky’s Camp Nelson Receives National Park Status Camp Nelson National Monument will become the second national park site to commemorate African American history in Kentucky.
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Press Release The Administration Scraps Climate Protections, Sacrificing National Parks to More Air Pollution Final replacement rule threatens public health and the health of our national parks, which are visited by more than 330 million people each year.
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Report Center for State of the Parks: Ninety Six National Historic Site In recognition of the important historical resources protected within Ninety Six National Historic Site, the National Parks Conservation Association’s Center for State of the Parks conducted an assessment to determine current conditions of the park’s resources.
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Victory A National Park for Stonewall On June 24, 2016, President Obama designated Stonewall National Monument, America’s first national park site dedicated to LGBT history.
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Report Harriet Tubman National Historical Park and Expansion NPCA has advocated for adding Harriet Tubman’s story to the National Park System since 2007, first supporting the legislation to authorize the Secretary of the Department of Interior to conduct a special resource study there, leading up to the national monument designation in 2013 by President Obama.
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Report Center for State of the Parks: Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site This report conveys the findings of a cultural resources and stewardship capacity assessment of Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site.
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Park Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail In 1780, a group of Patriot militiamen headed south from Virginia, intending to stop British Loyalists from taking Charleston, South Carolina. Overmountain Victory National Historic Trial traces the 330-mile path forged by these heroes of the Revolutionary War. The trail begins in Abingdon, Virginia, and ends at Kings Mountain, South Carolina, where the Patriots vanquished the British on October 7, 1780, turning the tide of the war.
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Report Leveraging National Park Partnerships in Urban Areas Do you engage in partnerships to achieve your mission? Does it work well? Would you like to strike up new and different types of partnerships?
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See a Map First State National Historical Park The six sites that make up the national historical park are spread across Delaware's three counties.
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Storymap A Disastrous Time for National Parks: Congress Must Act Fast To Rebuild Them Stronger In recent years, we’ve witnessed record floods, severe and more frequent storms and hurricanes destroy communities, shutting down businesses and ripping through our parks and the landscapes, wildlife and life-changing experiences they hold. Take a deeper dive to see the devastation of these disasters and what you can do to help.
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NPCA at Work More Clean Water Protections for People and Parks Clean water is a basic need. With two-thirds of national park waters impaired and many communities living with unsafe drinking water, we need more protections for our waterways, not less.
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Park Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail traces the route of the 1965 Voting Rights March, where civil rights protestors were attacked by police, raising support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Park Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument Within the Gila Wilderness lies Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, unique structures built inside caves by the Mogollon people during the 13th and early 14th centuries.
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NPCA AT WORK Protect New York-New Jersey Harbor and Gateway National Recreation Area The future of the New York-New Jersey Harbor and Gateway National Recreation Area rests in the hands of the Army Corps of Engineers and we have the power to help shape the outcome we want.
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Parks in the Path Map This map shows all 21 park sites in the path of totality for Monday's solar eclipse.
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Hallmark Channel "Love in the Great Smoky Mountains" This Hallmark movie was filmed around Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It premieres Saturday, Sept. 2, at 8 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Central.
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Podcast Episode Creating the Country's First 'Idea Park' Judy Hart was determined to create a national park on women's history, even though the site "didn’t look like a national park." Her idea changed the Park Service.
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Report Proposed Tule Springs Transmission Corridor This report was prepared in response to NV Energy’s request to locate a transmission corridor in an area known alternately as Tule Springs and the Upper Las Vegas Wash, in an area proposed to be a national monument managed by the National Park Service.
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Victory Wolves at Isle Royale Isle Royale National Park in Michigan is a wild, remote island in Lake Superior that serves as a natural refuge for wildlife, including its most famous residents: wolves and moose. Ninety-nine percent of Isle Royale is designated as a federal wilderness area and as the island’s top predator, wolves are essential to controlling the island’s moose population.
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Clark Bunting Former President and CEO W. Clark Bunting joined the National Parks Conservation Association in November 2013, following a distinguished career as a businessman and innovator within the media industry.
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Staff Vanessa Trujillo, Ph.D. As the Senior Conservation Program Manager, Vanessa oversees the Sun Coast office's conservation programs, supporting regional and national efforts while emphasizing advocacy and partner engagement.
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Nina Berlin Nina Berlin is a former Stanback fellow with NPCA’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Office researching infrastructure threats to the parks.
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Daniel Saxton Daniel is former senior program coordinator for NPCA's Center for Park Research.
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Victory Court Ruling Saves Greater Yellowstone Grizzly Bears Judge's ruling overturns Trump administration decision to remove endangered species protections from grizzly bears in the Yellowstone and Grand Teton region.
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Staff Ron Sundergill Ron joined NPCA in 2005. He is the Senior Regional Director for the Pacific office, overseeing the work of the regional office and its four field offices.
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