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Park Statue of Liberty National Monument The statue stands on Liberty Island in New York, and overlooks New York Harbor and the city skyline. A symbol of liberty and relief from oppression, she was the first sight of America for US immigrants who arrived by boat.
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Park Tupelo National Battlefield Tupelo National Battlefield is a monument to a two-day clash during the Civil War that enabled Sherman's army to continue its March to the Sea.
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Park Minuteman Missile National Historic Site Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is the first park site devoted entirely to the story of the Cold War. This site was once part of an enormous nuclear missile field that at its height included 150 Minuteman II missiles and 15 launch control centers that covered over 13,500 square miles of southwestern South Dakota.
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Policy Update Request for Information on Monument Review Process NPCA sent the following letter to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke requesting more information on the monument review process.
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Blog Post The Easternmost National Park Determining which national park site is the farthest east is surprisingly complicated.
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Press Release Carlsbad Caverns National Park the Latest Target of Rushed Oil and Gas Leasing Process The BLM's minuscule 10-day public scoping comment period for the nearly 200 parcel proposal comprising nearly 89,000 acres, some of which are about a mile from Carlsbad Caverns National Park, closes tonight.
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Press Release 4,265 Acres Purchased in Petrified Forest National Park The National Parks Conservation Association and Conservation Fund Protect Significant Prehistoric Lands within Park Boundary
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Blog Post 7 Facts About the Trump Administration’s Illegal Attack on National Monuments President Trump issued two proclamations to remove federal protections from roughly 2 million acres in Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments — the largest reduction of public lands protections in U.S. history.
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Press Release New Report Shows America's National Parks Are in Jeopardy National Parks Conservation Association Says Obama Administration Must Address Threats Facing National Parks and Develop Comprehensive Long Term Plan for Parks
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Blog Post My Members of Congress Are Friends of the National Parks. Are Yours? 228 members of Congress received NPCA’s Friend of the National Parks Award for their support of the National Park System through legislative votes in the 113th Congress (2013-2014).
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Blog Post 3 Reasons We're Excited About ‘Our Great National Parks’ A new Netflix docuseries highlights the splendor of national parks around the world — with a familiar face as host.
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Press Release Parks Group Supports Bipartisan Legislation to Establish National Park Site Dedicated to Latino History New legislation in the Senate and House would designate the Blackwell School National Historic Site, which would be one of the first national parks dedicated to protecting contemporary Latino history.
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Blog Post 11 of America’s Best National Park Beaches Need some sun and surf in your travel plans? NPCA staff highlight top beach vacation spots at national parks around the country.
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Blog Post Trivia Challenge: The National Park That Graced 10 Million Albums Q: Popular culture often portrays national parks in striking and unusual ways. One Grammy Award-winning album of the year even featured a national park prominently on its cover. Can you name this album? Hint: This record took over the airwaves in 1987 and launched four European rockers to super-stardom.
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Blog Post The Darkest National Parks in the United States Last week, the International Dark-Sky Association named a new dark-sky park — the seventh site in the U.S. National Park System that now holds that honor. This coveted designation recognizes not only excellent stargazing opportunities, but also superior night-sky stewardship through responsible lighting, public education and community outreach.
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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 The Rise of the National Park Mascots From Major Muskrat to Sunny Saguaro, human-sized mascots help national parks attract new visitors and convey important messages about wildlife and safety.
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Press Release Victory! Blackwell School Becomes America’s Newest National Park Site With a stroke of his pen, President Biden directed the National Park Service to save history at this former segregated school for Latinos
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Blog Post The ‘Quiet Crisis’ Facing National Parks NPCA is calling on Congress to support recently introduced legislation that would provide $250 million for national parks’ long-underfunded cultural resources and history programs.
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Press Release House Advances Landmark bill to Protect More than 2 Million Acres of National Parks and Public Lands Today marks a great day in history for our national parks and public lands.
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Press Release As Threats to National Parks Increase, President Biden Calls for More Funding and Staffing “It’s critical for Congress to follow the President’s lead and support a reinvestment in America’s national parks. We must reverse course now, and fast, before our parks are pushed into an even deeper financial hole." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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Press Release Blackwell School Poised to Become One of the First National Park Sites Dedicated to Modern Latino History The Blackwell National Historic Site will soon shed light on an often-overlooked injustice in American history and will be an important step forward for including Latino stories at our parks.
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Press Release With House Passage, Historic Blackwell School Even Closer to National Park Status The National Parks Conservation Association and Blackwell School Alliance are leading a grassroots campaign for a park that will honor the stories of Latino students and their families, centered around a former segregated school in West Texas.
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Press Release Congress Resoundingly Approves Blackwell School as America's Newest National Park Site Generations of Latino children experienced segregated education in America. The Blackwell National Historic Site will shed light on this often-overlooked injustice in American history.
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Blog Post Supermoms and Slacker Moms of the National Parks From moms who give their lives for their children to those who decide their offspring are not even worth raising, the maternal instincts of wildlife in our national parks and marine national monuments are as wildly diverse as the places themselves.
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Blog Post Did You Know? Marine and Coastal Resources of the National Park System Many people think of scenic mountain vistas, sprawling canyons, thundering waterfalls, and towering timber when they think about the spectacular natural features protected by our National Park System. But 85 national park units also harbor spectacular scenery along and under the surface of wide-open oceans and Great Lakes.
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Press Release Parks Groups Demand EPA Enforce the Law and Protect National Parks from Air Pollution "The future of our country’s national parks from Acadia to Yosemite are dependent on EPA action now.” - Stephanie Kodish, NPCA's Clean Air and Climate Senior Director and Counsel
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Blog Post 5 Ways to Celebrate Veterans Day — Free — at a National Park Why not take the next fee-free day throughout the National Park System to learn more about America's military history?
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Blog Post National Park-Related Recipes to Brighten Your Holidays What better way to celebrate the holidays than with food and drink! Here are 7 recipes with historical connections, shared online by national park sites.
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Blog Post See National Parks Through Artists’ Eyes A new book features 85 posters of national parks by contemporary artists and designers.
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Press Release Parks for All of Us: National Park Service Launches LGBT Study Initiative Statement by Clark Bunting, President and CEO of the National Parks Conservation Association
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Press Release EPA Finalizes Guidance that Encourages States to Ignore Air Rules Protecting National Parks Changes to Regional Haze Rule Guidance Could Set Our National Parks and Wilderness Areas Back Decades
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Press Release Desert Landscape Plan Fails to Fully Protect Desert National Parks NPCA finds only one of the three issues of particular concern to desert national parks is satisfactorily addressed
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Park Nicodemus National Historic Site In 1877, seven men from Kentucky — most of them formerly enslaved — set out to create the first all-black settlement on the Great Plains, inspiring many other African American families to travel west, too. Many of these pioneers viewed Kansas as a way to escape the discrimination, violence and poor living conditions they had encountered in the South following the Civil War. Life was difficult, however, and many of these early settlers left quickly; others lived in sod houses or holes in the ground and suffered without enough food until a second wave of settlers brought horses, plows and other resources several years later. In its heyday, roughly 600 people lived in Nicodemus; about 60 people still live there today.
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Park Isle Royale National Park This rugged, roadless island is the largest wilderness area in Michigan. See moose, beavers, foxes, snowshoe hares, loons, osprey, bats, and other animals without the interruption of cars and other aspects of modern civilization. Try hiking sections of the popular Greenstone Ridge Trail, the longest and highest ridge on the island and access point for many of the campsites, to experience a cross-section of the park’s untamed habitat.
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Victory Amache Preserved as Part of the National Park System NPCA helped advocate for a national park site preserving the story of Amache, where thousands of people of Japanese descent were unconstitutionally incarcerated.
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Report Awareness and Opinions about Gateway National Recreation Area An online poll conducted in the New York City area by Zogby International for NPCA in December 2006 measured the awareness and opinions of likely voters about Gateway National Recreation Area.
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Report Center for State of the Parks: Missouri National Recreational River NPCA’s Center for State of the Parks resource assessment of the Missouri National Recreational River indicates that cultural and natural resources in the park are in poor condition, overall, with scores of 51 and 59 out of a possible 100, respectively.
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Report Center for State of the Parks: Lewis and Clark National Historical Park The Center for State of the Parks assessed the conditions of cultural and natural resources at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park.
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Report Resources Related to Mining Proposals at Glacier National Park Maps of mining proposals, relative to Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
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NPCA at Work Don't Drill Near Dinosaur The Bureau of Land Management is considering offering oil and gas leases within 5 miles of Dinosaur National Monument, but drilling has no place at the doorstep of this Southwestern park and its world-class fossils.
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NPCA at Work Protect America's Coral Reefs from Irresponsible Development Developers are looking to construct two different marinas in Coral Bay on St. John, US Virgin Islands, which is surrounded by the lands and waters of Virgin Islands National Park and Coral Reef National Monument.
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NPCA at Work Protect Biscayne from Nuclear Expansion Plans to expand Turkey Point by adding two new nuclear units would make Turkey Point one of the largest nuclear power facilities in the country, in an area that is ground zero for sea level rise. The proposed expansion threatens our national parks, endangered wildlife, Everglades restoration, and the health of park water resources.
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Seth Kantner Seth Kantner is a commercial fisherman, wildlife photographer, and author of Shopping for Porcupine and the national bestselling novel, Ordinary Wolves. His writing and photographs have appeared in the New York Times, Outside, Alaska, Reader’s Digest, and other magazines and anthologies. He lives with his wife and daughter in northwest Alaska.
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Michael Lanza Michael Lanza is the Northwest editor of Backpacker and creator of TheBigOutside.com. This article is adapted from his new book Before They’re Gone: A Family’s Year-Long Quest to Explore America’s Most Endangered National Parks, published by Beacon Press.
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Robb Hampton
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Kevin Grange Kevin Grange is an author and paramedic living in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He won a 2013 Lowell Thomas Award for his National Parks magazine story, “Sacred Water.” He has worked at both Yellowstone and Yosemite and is the author of "Lights and Sirens: The Education of a Paramedic."
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NPCA at Work Preserving the Complicated History at a Segregated Texas School The Blackwell School in Marfa represents a rare opportunity to preserve stories of discrimination and resilience
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Report Opportunity Knocks Hurricane Ike tore through the upper Texas Gulf coast in 2008, unleashing devastation on communities and economies. Yet portions of the region fared better, showing that undeveloped lands along the coast serve as a natural buffer for a tremendous amount of storm surge tide.
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Staff Laura Atchison Laura Atchison has been with NPCA since 2005 and is currently Senior Director of Board Relations.
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