Search results for “Timothy S. Good”
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Blog Post Love Is in the Parks 5 NPCA staff members share their national park love stories.
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Magazine Article Fired Up Prescribed fires are standard practice at sprawling landscapes throughout the West, and now the fields and forests at historic sites have become the Park Service’s latest target.
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Policy Update Position on Deferred Maintenance Needs and Potential Solutions NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources ahead of a hearing scheduled for June 18, 2019.
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Magazine Article Harlequin Hardships Why is the Western population of Harlequin ducks declining?
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Magazine Article Mussel Power Mollusks are the latest weapon in the battle to clean up the D.C. waterway once known as the Forgotten River.
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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 them.
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Magazine Article Striking Desert Gold Will a wet winter bring a spring super bloom to Death Valley?
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Blog Post We Can’t Afford to Wait Climate change is having real, wide-ranging effects now on national parks around the country.
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Blog Post The Community-Supported Parks Congress Is Leaving Behind 30 national heritage areas, unique partnerships overseen by the National Park Service, could lose their federal funding this fall, sending a chilling effect throughout the many communities they serve.
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Blog Post A New Model for Parks Could Help Revitalize Texas’ Gulf Coast A new national park could provide more than recreation and conservation opportunities. It could actually help lessen the devastation from natural disasters.
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Press Release American Indian and First Nations of Canada Tribes Sign Historic Agreement to Restore Bison The historic agreement formalizes intertribal collaboration to restore bison to tribal and appropriate non-tribal public lands.
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Blog Post The Border Wall Is Destroying What This Park Was Created to Protect A firsthand account of the devastation at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona.
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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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Blog Post Rock On: 11 Lesser-Known Geologic Wonders in National Parks From mysterious gliding rocks in Death Valley to fossils of some of the most ancient life forms in Glacier, here are 11 lesser-known geologic wonders—including a few personal favorites from Bruce Heise of the Park Service’s Geologic Resources Inventory program.
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Magazine Article Walking the Walk Sixty-five years ago, park advocates joined a Supreme Court justice on an epic hike to save the landscape he loved.
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Press Release Telling Our Stories: Assemblymember Bigelow Presents Resolution Recognizing the Contributions of Chinese Americans to Yosemite National Park California Assemblymember Frank Bigelow presented today the State Resolution ACR 262, recognizing the contributions of Chinese Americans to Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Nevada.
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Blog Post Beyond Outreach: How to Deeply Engage New Audiences Engagement is a fairly common word these days. Companies, non-profits, and public land managers alike are looking for ways to connect with the changing demographic of the American public. But when it comes to engagement, what is really working? What efforts are making lasting change in the lives of young people and communities?
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Magazine Article The Last Wild One After the chance discovery of a Franciscan manzanita, the rare plant was carefully relocated to a secret location in San Francisco’s Presidio. Can it survive in the wild?
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Policy Update Position on Reauthorization of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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Policy Update Testimony: Pride Forum Written statement by Chad Lord, NPCA Senior Director of Water Policy, for the House Committee on Natural Resources on July 24, 2019.
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Magazine Article Counting Sheep Airlifting bighorn sheep back into the Sierra Nevada’s national parks.
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Blog Post Haunted Parks: 6 Ghostly Getaways Ghost stories might scare your campfire circle. They can also offer hyperlocal histories for travel destinations around the country. Learn about a few spectral park visitors — if you dare — including kidnapped sailors and a skinny-dipping conservationist.
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Press Release Federal Court Rejects Trump Administration’s Approval of California’s Cadiz Water Pipeline A federal court ruled that the Trump administration violated the law when it approved plans to construct a 43-mile-long pipeline through Mojave Trails National Monument and other public land in southern California.
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Magazine Article An American Journey Was the story of Minidoka National Historic Site his story, too?
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Press Release Perdue’s Forest Management Could Impact Parks Lack of diversity in Trump cabinet concerns parks group
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Blog Post Want to Take a Bit of This National Park with You? Many national parks were created to protect natural wonders, be they giant sequoias or graceful sandstone arches. Yet, one national park is mandated to give away the very natural resource the park is known for.
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Blog Post A Sacred Trust: New Video Highlights Navajo and Hopi Perspectives on Clean Air Many Native American families in the Southwest are sorely affected by pollution from coal-fired power plants, yet their concerns often go unheard by decision-makers
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Press Release Concerns Over Plan to Use Appropriated Funds to Repay Parks’ Fee Accounts Drained During Shutdown This move further highlights the lack of a strategic, long-term plan to account for the avoidable damage our parks are now dealing with.
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Blog Post Where to See Waterfalls This Season Early spring is one of the best times of the year to see waterfalls, and these 10 picture-perfect parks are great bets for a natural rush.
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Blog Post An Overdue Dose of Wilderness Earlier this month, Congress passed the first bill designating a new wilderness area in five years—the longest lapse ever between such designations. The bill specifically protects 32,500 acres at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, a national park site in Michigan famous for its immense sand dunes and bluffs, as well as its beaches, forests, and inland lakes on the southeastern shore of Lake Michigan.
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