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Press Release National Parks Group Praises House Approval of Manhattan Project National Historical Park Act Statement by Rob Smith, Northwest Regional Director, National Parks Conservation Association
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Press Release District Court Ruling Endangers National Parks, Historic Jamestown This destructive and unlawfully built project degrades the historic landscape including surrounding national park sites, and threatens the endangered Atlantic sturgeon.
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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 Gillibrand & Nadler with National Parks Conservation Association Launch Campaign at Historic Stonewall Inn in New York City to Create First Ever National Park Site Honoring America’s LGBT History National Campaign Urges President Obama to Designate First National Monument for LGBT Equal Rights at Historic Site of Stonewall Rebellion
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Press Release National Park System Welcomes Manhattan Project National Historical Park NPCA celebrates addition of Manhattan Project National Historical Park as 409th national park
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Press Release National Parks Group Supports Recommendations to Establish New National Historical Park Honoring Cesar Chavez and the Farm Labor Movement Statement by Ron Sundergill, Pacific Region Senior Director, National Parks Conservation Association
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Press Release Victory! Parks Group Wins Court Ruling on Marine Reserve Zone, Bringing Greater Protections for Biscayne National Park "Thanks to this ruling, national park advocates have a chance to restore this beautiful marine national park to its former glory.” -- NPCA Sun Coast Regional Director Dr. Melissa Abdo
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Press Release National Parks Group Applauds Ninth Circuit Court Rulings for Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve Both Wilde and Sturgeon had called into question Park Service authority to enforce safety and other park rules on navigable waters claimed by the State of Alaska
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Press Release Nearly 90 Tourism, Cultural Heritage, Conservation, and National Parks Groups Fight House Attack on National Monuments Organizations Call on House Leadership to Oppose HR 1459
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Press Release Parks Group Condemns House’s Senseless Spending Bill that Slashes National Park Service Budget “A vote in support of this spending bill is a vote against our national parks, public lands and communities." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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Press Release Court’s Order Sides with Parks Group, Another Positive Step Towards Protecting Historic Jamestown Today’s Court ruling makes clear that the Army Corps illegally approved Dominion Energy’s permit to build a massive transmission line across the James River.
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Press Release National Parks Group Asks Pennsylvania Court to Protect Upper Delaware National Scenic and Recreational River Friend of the Court brief filed in support of the Upper Delaware Council’s lawsuit to prevent the expansion of a quarry in Lakawaxen Township
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Press Release Federal Court Rejects National Park Service Decision to Open More Off-Road Vehicle Trails in Big Cypress National Preserve Wildlife Conservation Groups Celebrate Victory for Critically Endangered Florida Panther and Sensitive Wetland Habitats
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Press Release Victory! Court Ruling Supports Park Advocates for Protecting Historic Jamestown Today’s decision could resolve six-year battle to preserve American history
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Blog Post One Step Closer to a Manhattan Project National Historical Park Advocates have been waiting more than a decade to create a national park that would preserve historic sites and artifacts involved in the development of nuclear energy and the making of the atomic bomb. Now, we could be remarkably close to seeing these once super-secret details and places in American history open and interpreted for the public.
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Press Release Parks Group Celebrates Historic Investment in Everglades National Park, Restoration Efforts "Today is a triumph for one of America's oldest, wildest national parks and we are grateful to see it." -- NPCA President and CEO Theresa Pierno
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Press Release House's Reckless Interior Budget Jeopardizes National Parks Amidst Another Record-Breaking Summer Season “The House Interior Appropriations budget is reckless and should be a nonstarter for anyone who cares about our national parks and public lands." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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Press Release Bill to make Japanese American incarceration camp a National Historic Site passes U.S. House The Amache National Historic Site Act permanently protects the Colorado landmark and will ensure the survivors’ stories are remembered
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Blog Post Celebrating Places and Stories Within Nature: San Antonio Missions National Historical Park The first video in a new series showcases park advocate Josie Gutierrez and how exercising in San Antonio Missions transformed her appreciation for this natural and historical space. Her passion for the national park is now spreading across generations within her community.
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Press Release House Advances Interior Funding Bill that Prioritizes National Parks, Wildlife and Local Communities Once again a group of lawmakers is speaking up for the future of our public lands and public health as the House today passed legislation to put our parks back on track.
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Press Release House Passage of Key Legislation Poises Senate for Approving the Most Significant National Park System Expansion in Decades National Parks Conservation Association, with Local Communities and Businesses, Spent Years Advocating for Park Sites, Expansions and Studies
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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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Press Release New Plan for Pennsylvania Turnpike Stormwater Runoff Will Better Protect Valley Forge National Historical Park “Now every drop of stormwater that flows off this expanded six-mile stretch of the turnpike will be cooled and cleaned before gradually entering Valley Forge National Historical Park and Valley Creek" -- NPCA's Joy Oakes.
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Press Release Great Lakes National Park Expert Joins Congressional Roundtable, Discusses Harmful Impacts of Waters of the U.S. Supreme Court Ruling “Congress must move swiftly to permanently protect our nation’s waters for drinking, recreating and our Tribal way-of-life.” --NPCA's Kira Davis
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Press Release Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Eagle Mountain Landfill Case, Helps Protect Joshua Tree National Park Refusal to hear appeal from Kaiser Ventures LLC is a major win for Joshua Tree National Park
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Press Release Parks Group Applauds Purchase of Historic Homestead Within Glacier National Park LWCF Acquisition Protects Harrison Creek Property from Inappropriate uses, Strengthens Integrity of Glacier Ecosystem
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Press Release President's Budget Calls for Historic Investment in National Parks in Advance of 2016 Centennial President's Budget Calls for Historic Investment in National Parks in Advance of 2016 Centennial
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Press Release President’s Budget Calls for Historic and Necessary Funding Increases to National Parks, Air and Water "Today's historic budget plan from the Biden administration comes as a welcome and much needed change for our national parks, their staff and all who love and care for these treasured places." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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Press Release BLM Defers Oil and Gas Lease Sales in New Mexico, Temporarily Protecting Chaco Culture National Historical Park National Parks Conservation Association celebrates temporary victory for public lands near New Mexico National Park, still concerned about overall leasing processes and lack of public input.
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Press Release Parks Group Celebrates Deb Haaland’s Historic Confirmation as Interior Secretary, Marking a New Era for National Parks and Public Lands "Now, more than ever, we need bold leaders like Secretary Haaland, who are ready to take on the challenges facing our public lands with a commitment to climate solutions and environmental justice." - Theresa Pierno
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Park Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail This 175-mile trail on Hawaii's Big Island preserves and interprets hundreds of ancient settlement sites, with access points at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park, Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park and Pu'ukohola National Historic Site.
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Park First Ladies National Historic Site They command the attention of millions and spearhead initiatives that shape our culture, yet for years, no comprehensive resource helped to document and interpret the lives of America’s first ladies. Recognizing this need, enthusiast Mary Regula, wife of a former Ohio congressman, helped establish a bibliography on these leaders. Her efforts led to a National First Ladies Library in 1996 and this historic site in 2000 — one of only a handful of national parks devoted specifically to interpreting women’s history. Though the site preserves the childhood home of one individual woman — First Lady Ida Saxton McKinley — it also archives a wealth of information on the diverse lives of dozens of influential women who served in this rare and distinctive role in American politics and society.
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Park William Howard Taft National Historic Site William Howard Taft National Historic Site includes the family home and exhibits about the career of the nation's 27th president and 10th chief justice.
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Park Kenai Fjords National Park Kenai Fjords National Park offers hiking, kayaking, and the opportunity to see a glacier up close.
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Land Based Trip On the Road to Freedom: Understanding Civil Rights Through our National Parks and Heritage Areas Join NPCA experts on this remarkable journey through some of the most significant sites associated with American civil rights. Along the way, you will have a unique opportunity to meet with NPCA partners, local historians, and even some of the faithful activists known as foot soldiers who actively played a role in the civil rights movement of the 1960’s. Learn firsthand about NPCA’s role in expanding cultural resource protections to help preserve the story of civil rights. This program allows you to experience cultural elements, such as food and music, that defined the period.
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Report Dark Horizons: 10 National Parks Most Threatened by New Coal Fired Power Plants NPCA's report highlights the 10 national parks most threatened by new coal-fired power plants, and calls on the Administration to abandon its effort to permit more harmful air pollution near national parks.
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Engagement Field Trips National Park Week 2024 Zion Welcome to Camp NPCA! We’re so excited invite you to celebrate National Park Week with us in-person in 2024. Join us for whole summer of camp packed into one very full day at Zion National Park on April 27. We’ll hike, ride horses(!), watch for wildlife, exchange friendship bracelets, and best of all: explore one of Utah’s prime national parks with new friends and your favorite outdoor influencers as camp counselors.
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Small Ship Cruise Glacier Bay National Park Adventure Cruise Explore parts of Glacier Bay National Park that 99% of visitors never visit. On this eight-day small-ship cruise, you will get an up-close look at glaciers, old-growth forests, and sea life. Hike remote coastlines and take in diverse birding at South Marble Island. Here, you can search for wildlife like bears, sea lions, seals, porpoises and eagles. With a guest to crew ratio of 3:1, you will enjoy the comfort of having a robust onboard team, each with a fierce love of travel and appreciation for the wilderness, to make your journey unforgettable.
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Report Making Connections: Building a Healthy Future for Shenandoah National Park And Its Gateway Communities Drawing on economic data compiled by state and federal agencies, interviews with local residents and leaders, and a variety of research reports and assessments, this report outlines three findings:
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Map Learn More About Seeing Clearly in America’s National Parks How dirty air harms parks and what you can do to help.
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StoryMap Protecting Sensitive Resources near Mesa Verde National Park NPCA and our partners at FracTracker invite you to explore this interactive map documenting some of the wildlife habitat, scenic views, recreational opportunities, and cultural sites that deserve protection under the Master Leasing Plan.
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Land Based Trip Natural Fortunes of the Four Corners Welcome to the Four Corners region, known for sweeping vistas, internationally recognized dark skies, diverse plant and animal species, and remains of the homes left behind by the Ancestral Puebloan culture, whose sites are sacred to modern Pueblo descendants. Compare the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde to the structures in Chaco Culture National Historical Park and Aztec Ruins National Monument. This unique and beautiful area is increasingly at risk of oil and gas development, which threatens priceless sacred lands and archeological sites. On this trip, journey alongside NPCA experts to experience these unique places firsthand and get a behind-the-scenes look at how NPCA is fighting to protect them.
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Regional Events Park Talks Join our NPCA community for virtual "Park Talks" to learn about our work and ways you can get involved.
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NPCA at Work Two National Monuments Under Threat in the California Desert Last year, President Obama protected some of our country’s most spectacular and unique desert lands by designating three national new national monuments. Now, the Department of the Interior could attempt to alter or revoke federal protections for two of these important places.
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NPCA at Work Support the Proposed Rim of the Valley Expansion With more than 17 million people, the Los Angeles Metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the country, yet it has less open space than any other large urban area on the West Coast. The Rim of the Valley proposal, which would expand Santa Monica National Recreation Area, represents an opportunity for the National Park Service to protect some of the last wild lands and historic sites in the greater Los Angeles area.
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Park Piscataway Park Protecting the view from George Washington's home across the river at Mount Vernon, Piscataway Park offers visitors walks along the Potomac River across freshwater tidal wetlands and on forested trails, and the opportunity to view remarkable wildlife including beavers and American bald eagles.
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Dorothy Canter Dorothy Canter is a long-time NPCA volunteer, having served on the Board of Trustees for nine years. In 2017, she founded the campaign to establish a National Historical Park honoring Julius Rosenwald and the Rosenwald Schools.
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Small Ship Cruise Wild California Escape: Channel Islands Unique and wild, Channel Islands National Park serves as the perfect getaway for a revitalizing experience of wilderness and wellness. Known as North America’s Galápagos, the Channel Islands and their surrounding waters provide habitat for more than 2,000 species of plants and animals, including 150 native species found nowhere else in the world. See islands so magnificent that they were protected as a national monument in 1938 and later became a national park in 1980. NPCA has worked to remove ranching and hunting operations on Santa Rosa Island, allowing native species to flourish and providing the public with unhindered access to this beautifully isolated place.
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Report Turning Point Through individual stories from parks around the country, this report describes how air pollution harms our national treasures. The report also recommends ten specific steps that our government representatives and all of us can take to clean up harmful air pollution and protect our national parks for future generations.
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Land Based Trip Great Deserts of the West: Joshua Tree & Death Valley Experience a plethora of desert wonders on this unforgettable adventure through Joshua Tree and Death Valley National Parks. This expert-led journey will take you through lush oases, waterfalls, vast sand dunes, towering granite monoliths, salt flats, badlands, alpine peaks and more! Keep a sharp eye out for desert wildlife with opportunities to see desert bighorn sheep, desert cottontail rabbits, roadrunners, desert reptiles, coyotes and snakes. No need to fear, each night we'll retire to comfortable accommodations that keep us close to the action.
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Page Regional Offices With a network of 27 programmatic locations in 11 regions across the country, the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) is uniquely positioned to protect our nation's most cherished places. By living and working in and around the parks and communities they serve, NPCA's regional and field staff forge lasting and effective partnerships with advocates, organizations and governments to bridge local advocacy and national policy.
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Partner Events Bears Ears Public Meetings Bears Ears National Monument is home to tens of thousands of sacred Indigenous cultural sites, some of the darkest night skies in the country and expansive canyons and mesas at the heart of a culturally and ecologically connected landscape stretching across Southern Utah from Bryce Canyon to Canyonlands National Parks.
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NPCA at Work Don’t Put Endangered Wildlife at Risk to Drill Big Cypress A private energy development company wants to conduct seismic testing on 70,000 acres within Big Cypress National Preserve for oil and gas development — paving the way for drilling to begin on an unprecedented scale on national park land.
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Page Our Values The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) is committed to fostering a workplace of excellence to achieve our mission to protect and enhance national parks. Our Core Values of Commitment, Inclusion, Integrity and Respect promote a diverse, ethical and innovative culture and make NPCA an effective organization and a great place to work.
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google maps Affected Park Sites See the national parks that were affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Map Christopher Park See the irregular streets that helped participants in the Stonewall uprising fight back against police in 1969.
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myparkstory.org Your Park Stories Read park stories or submit your own!
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NPCA at Work Protect Mojave from the Soda Mountain Solar Project Developers have proposed building the Soda Mountain Solar Project, an industrial-scale renewable energy facility, less than one mile from the boundary of Mojave National Preserve. It would be the closest renewable energy project to a national park site in the entire southwestern United States, in the middle of a critical pathway for desert bighorn sheep.
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Page Board of Trustees NPCA’s Board of Trustees is the governing body for the nonpartisan, nonprofit organization — the nation’s leading voice for America’s national parks.
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climate ride 2024 Climate Ride Events Join the movement and bike, hike or run for our national parks at one of this year's Climate Ride events.
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Sarah Duensing As the Senior Communication Coordinator at NPCA, Sarah Duensing worked on a variety of projects, including the blog, advocacy actions and National Parks magazine.
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Victory Navajo Citizens Stop Developers from Building an Egregious Resort and Tramway on the Rim of the Grand Canyon Developers have been attempting for years to build a massive 420-acre resort hotel and aerial tramway right on the rim of the Grand Canyon. In February 2018, Western Navajo citizens unanimously opposed allowing this destructive project on their land, effectively ending the threat to this landmark national park and its deeply significant cultural sites.
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Page Our Accountability The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) is committed to using every dollar you donate efficiently and effectively. Our careful stewardship of your financial support is why we receive such high ratings from charity watchdog organizations, including meeting all of the Better Business Bureau (BBB) Wise Giving Alliance Standards for Charity Accountability.
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Page Careers With a career at NPCA, you will help ensure that our beautiful national parks continue to thrive and inspire for generations to come. From empowering communities to influencing Congress, we work every day to strengthen, protect and defend these incredible places for all. Join our team and apply today!
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Page Gifts That Pay You Back Charitable gift annuities and charitable remainder trusts are gifts that pay you income for life while helping to protect America’s national parks for generations to come.
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Page Join Your tax-deductible gift of $25 or more entitles you to all the exclusive benefits of membership — and helps us protect our beloved national parks from the threats of lack of funding, pollution, overuse . . . and much more.
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Page Memorial & Tribute Giving Honor the memory of a loved one, commemorate a milestone or celebrate a special occasion while providing a lasting legacy for America’s national parks.
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Rona Kobell Rona Kobell, a frequent National Parks magazine contributor, is the co-founder of the Environmental Justice Journalism Initiative. She is also a professor of journalism and has written about the Chesapeake Bay for 20 years. Reach her at rona@ejji.org.
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Mary Purvis Mary Purvis is NPCA’s Volunteer Coordinator supporting the Board of Trustees and the National Council.
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Report Gateways To Yellowstone Gateways to Yellowstone: Protecting the Wild Heart of Our Region’s Thriving Economy
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Page MyParkStory Terms of Service Thank you for your interest in sharing your park story. Together, our shared stories will remind our leaders that these priceless places -- and our priceless memories -- must be properly funded and protected.
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Page More Ways to Give There are many ways you can give to help support NPCA's critical park protection and advocacy work.
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Page Give A Gift Membership Share your passion for the parks by giving someone special an NPCA membership.
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Letter Great Waters Coalition Opposes Continuing Resolution On behalf of the America’s Great Waters Coalition, we urge you to reject extreme provisions in the House-passed Continuing Resolution that threaten to undermine the restoration and protection of our Great Waters and the millions of jobs and other economic opportunities that depend on them.
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Craig Fontenot Craig Fontenot is a horticultural geek, a water enthusiast and a marketing executive, in that order.
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