Search results for “Chris Marker”
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Chris Marker
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Spotlight Chris Liu’s Story Conservationist Chris Liu looks to the future – his own and for national parks in the Pacific Northwest.
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Chris Clarke Chris joined NPCA in 2017. He works with desert communities to protect national parks, monuments, and other protected places, and the landscapes that surround them.
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Capt. Chris Marvin Chris Marvin is a former Black Hawk helicopter pilot and medically retired U.S. Army officer with more than seven years of active service. He led a platoon into combat in 2004, where he was wounded in a helicopter crash near the Afghan-Pakistan border.
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Staff Chris Watson A Campaign Director in the Southeast region, Chris Watson works on landscape connectivity, beyond boundary protection, future parks/park expansions, urban parks and wildlands, and Native American cultural connectedness to the parks.
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Magazine Article 401 And Done Visiting all 401 national park sites was Chris Calvert’s longtime dream—and then it became a reality.
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Patrick Bassett Patrick Bassett is a second-year graduate student in the Public History program at Texas State University. His thesis, which is currently in progress, focuses on Indigenous representation within the National Park System. He is also currently working as an intern for the Texas Historical Commission on the William Goyens Jr. project, working to research and correct an outdated and erroneous historical marker.
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Video Wanted: Grizzly Bears? NPCA is a proud sponsor of this public education video about the elusive North Cascades grizzly bear narrated by ecologist and filmmaker Chris Morgan.
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Magazine Article Cosmic Vibes Abound Gram Parsons and his musical legacy at Joshua Tree
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Letter Fund Our Parks. Fix Our Parks. Thousands of park advocates are calling on Congress to fund and protect America's national parks. See the petition and add your name!
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Magazine Article Fire on the Mountain A dozen family members gathered in Glacier for a vacation and birthday celebration. Then the perfect storm of fire approached.
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Video Time for the Grizzly? Now is the time to restore the North Cascades grizzly bear! The North Cascades Ecosystem is the only remaining grizzly bear population on the West Coast of the contiguous United States. Although grizzlies have lived in the North Cascades for thousands of years, biologists estimate that fewer than 10 remain today, making it the most at-risk bear population in North America.
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Resource 2019 National Park Heritage Awards NPCA awarded the 2019 National Park Heritage Award to members of Congress who were sponsors or original cosponsors of bills within the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act and voted in favor of final passage.
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Magazine Article Revolutionary Roles For historical reenactors in Lexington and in Minute Man National Historical Park, the past is present.
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Magazine Article Growing up with Gettysburg Over the decades, the park changed. So did I.
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Blog Post 3 Reasons NPCA's 2024 ‘Pride in Our Parks’ Was Our Best Yet Couldn’t make it to NPCA’s June events celebrating LGBTQ+ pride? Here’s a recap that we hope inspires you to join us next year.
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Magazine Article Reflections on a Man in his Wilderness Remembering Richard Proenneke.
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Magazine Article A Muted Morning How one Civil War site is dialing back the noise — and light — to provide a more inclusive park experience.
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Blog Post A Hiking Guide to the Rim of the Valley An insider’s guide to exploring this region of California that could soon become part of the National Park System.
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Press Release Park Advocates Support a Path Forward for Chesapeake National Recreation Area The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the nation. Thousands of years of history and one-of-a-kind natural wonders come alive here.
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Magazine Article Untold Stories The Park Service strives to tell the history of all Americans, but one group has gone almost entirely overlooked.
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Magazine Article Digging in Native Soil At Bighorn Canyon in Montana and Wyoming, an innovative archaeological field school partners with descendant communities.
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Magazine Article Branching Out Is there more than one species of Joshua Tree?
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Press Release Veterans Lead the Way in Protecting National Parks with Launch of Parks Group’s Veterans Council "With the launch of the Veterans Council, we will further elevate our veterans as essential partners in our work to safeguard some of our country’s most treasured places.” - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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Press Release Riverside County Rejects Destructive New City Near Joshua Tree National Park Riverside County Board of Supervisors unanimously rejects city proposal that threatened Joshua Tree National Park wildlife, night skies and surrounding communities.
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Magazine Article The Long and Winding Recovery The Anacostia River and the national park site that flanks it were long mistreated and neglected. Are the tides finally turning?
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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, we will have special opportunities 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 1960s. Throughout this transformative small-group tour, we’ll make our way from Birmingham to Memphis, immersing ourselves in the extraordinary stories and culture of this defining period in American history.
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Land Based Trip On the Road to Freedom: Understanding Civil Rights Through Our National Parks and Heritage Areas (WAITLIST ONLY) Join NPCA experts on this remarkable journey through some of the most significant sites associated with American civil rights. Along the way, we will have special opportunities 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 1960s. Throughout this transformative NPCA small-group tour, we’ll make our way from Birmingham to Memphis, immersing ourselves in the extraordinary stories and culture of this defining period in American history.
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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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Resource Awards and Recognition The National Parks Conservation Association has had the privilege of presenting awards to decision makers, organizations, and individuals that have made a difference for national parks. The contributions these award-winners have made are vital to the continued excellence of our National Park System.
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NPCA at Work Support the Proposed Chesapeake National Recreation Area The Chesapeake Bay is worth inclusion in the National Park System to enhance public access and protection.
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Press Release California Protects Greater Joshua Tree Landscape from Contentious Project with New Legislation The Eagle Crest project would threaten the national park, wildlife, and desert water sources.
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Press Release Parks Group Joins Conservation Community, Files Lawsuit after President Trump Illegally Axed Bears Ears National Monument President’s abuse of authority strips protections from a priceless cultural and natural heritage that belongs to all Americans.
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Blog Post New "FracTracker" Tool Can Help Safeguard National Parks Concerned visitors are helping to document oil and gas development on the border of Theodore Roosevelt National Park through an innovative crowdsourcing campaign.
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Press Release California Governor Newsom Signs Bill to Protect Desert Water, Wildlife and Parks SB307 requires state environmental review of Cadiz Inc. and desert water mining proposals
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Blog Post Jimmy Carter, An Icon of Conservation and Public Service NPCA’s tribute to the former U.S. president and ardent national park advocate.
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Press Release Recovery Planning Proposed for North Cascades Grizzly Bears Washingtonians, conservation groups say now is the time to save a threatened species
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Press Release Senate Moves to Protect More than 2 Million Acres of National Parks and Public Lands NPCA and Allies Worked for Years on Many of the Key Provisions in the Public Lands Package
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Press Release New economic impact study of Ocmulgee River Corridor to support growth and community engagement in Central Georgia National Parks Conservation Association to help propel economic effort on proposed Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve with $74,800 from Knight Foundation
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Blog Post Reflections on Birmingham, Site of America’s Newest National Monument Birmingham was once the nation’s most segregated city, home to brutal, racially motivated violence. Today, a new national park site commemorates the critical civil rights history that happened here.
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Magazine Article Snow, Steam, Bison, Sky A winter adventure in Yellowstone National Park.
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Blog Post Is Your Representative a Friend of the National Parks? Does anything ever get done in Washington, D.C.? The news constantly portrays Capitol Hill as a deadlocked and rancorous place where good ideas get shot down in a seemingly endless cycle of partisan wrangling.
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Blog Post Total Eclipse? Totally Worth It Undeterred by long drives and short nights, thousands relish a rare total solar eclipse at Oregon's John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.
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Blog Post The Inflation Reduction Act Readies National Parks for Climate Change From the mountains of Hawaii to East Coast grasslands, infusions of funding from 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act are preparing our national parks to fight the greatest threat to the National Park System: climate change.
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