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• Park George Rogers Clark National Historical Park George Rogers Clark National Historical Park honors the American colonel credited with opening the Northwest Territories to American expansion, following his defeat of the British at Vincennes.
• Park Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park Originally built to transport coal, lumber, grain and other agricultural products, the 184.5 miles of this historical park showcase American transportation history while providing a beautiful place for visitors to hike and bike along the waterway.
• Park Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park celebrates the ingenuity of the people who lived alongside migratory birds, green sea turtles, and monk seals on the lavabeds of the western shore of Hawai'i.
• NPCA at Work Support Storm Recovery Funding for the National Park Service Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria devastated communities. They also caused unprecedented damage to national parks. Hundreds of millions of dollars are needed to repair these parks and protect the National Park Service budget, which is already underfunded and cannot absorb the huge cost of hurricane recovery.
• Press Release House Appropriations Bill Minimizes Cuts For National Parks but Fails to Meet Their Funding Needs Jul 2014 Statement by Craig Obey, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs
• Press Release New Legislation Combats Climate Change Impacts on National Park Lands and Waters Dec 2019 This is the first of many measures that must be taken to safeguard the health of our people and our public lands and waters.
• Press Release Press Telephone Briefing Today RE: Shutdown of National Parks Nationwide Oct 2013 Federal Government Shutdown Hurts Local Economies, Planned Family Vacations & America's National Heritage
• Press Release NPCA Joins Community & Business Partners to Applaud Progress of Bipartisan Legislation that Protects Glacier National Park, Flathead Lake & North Fork Flathead River Valley Dec 2014 NPCA thanks Montana's Congressional leaders for their bipartisan work toward passage of North Fork Watershed Protection Act.
• Press Release Climate Change Biggest Threat Facing National Parks; NPCA Supports Selection of Gina McCarthy for Domestic Climate Advisor Dec 2020 “With our public lands and waterways at the forefront of the climate crisis, they offer one of our country’s best defenses for addressing these threats. Protecting, restoring and preserving them is key to combating it." -- NPCA President and CEO Theresa Pierno
• Blog Post Today’s Cuts Mean Wide-Ranging Impacts for Parks—and People—around the Country Mar 2013 | By Tom Kiernan Severe budget cuts could affect jobs, visitor services, gateway communities, and more.
• Blog Post What’s in National Parks’ Trash Cans — and What You Can Do Aug 2016 | By Jamie Varner NPCA recently studied the waste at three national parks as a first step toward implementing zero-landfill initiatives under the leadership of corporate partner Subaru. Here’s what we found, how visitors feel about park trash and what you can do to help.
• Press Release Parks Group Celebrates Bill Promoting Public Lands, Outdoor Spaces for Veteran’s Health and Wellness Dec 2020 This bill ensures millions of veterans and their families will get the resources they need to heal and benefit from America’s outdoor spaces.
• Press Release Parks Group Submits Comments In Support Of Plan To Bridge Tamiami Trail To Achieve Full Everglades Restoration Jul 2010 Restored water flows will help mend ecosystem
• Press Release BLM Postpones Lease Sale Near Chaco Culture National Historical Park Mar 2018 BLM to conduct additional review of energy development’s potential impacts on cultural site
• Blog Post What's Next for Parks? Nov 2020 | By Theresa Pierno The work to protect our public lands doesn’t stop as the ballots are counted. Here’s what NPCA staff are focused on as we sort through the post-election landscape.
• Press Release Clean Power Plan Replacement Rule Weakens Climate Protections Allowing for More Air Pollution in National Parks Aug 2018 This replacement rule prioritizes interests of polluters over the future of our public lands and public health.
• Press Release National Parks Group Applauds Mayor Bloomberg and Interior Secretary Salazar's Efforts to Advance Vision for Gateway National Recreation Area Jul 2012 Statement by NPCA Senior Regional Director Alexander Brash
• Blog Post Looking Ahead for National Parks Dec 2013 | By Clark Bunting NPCA's 4 priorities for President Obama in the New Year.
• Press Release National Parks Conservation Association Welcomes New Director to Head New York City Office Feb 2014 Cortney Worrall to serve as Northeast senior regional director
• Press Release Shameful: Interior Department Calls to Reopen Hunting Regulations on National Park Service Lands Jul 2017 On July 14, 2017, the Acting Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks issued a memo to the Acting Director of the National Park Service to reconsider the Alaska state-wide hunting regulations, which were finalized in 2015.
• Blog Post The National Park with the Most Endangered Species Jul 2018 | By Jennifer Errick NPCA recently worked with Defenders of Wildlife to determine how many endangered species have critical habitats that include national park sites. One park has significantly more of these rare plants and animals than any other.
• Press Release Environment groups warn air tour plans threaten Washington national parks Sep 2021 Allowing and expanding low-flying air tours throughout Olympic and Mount Rainier national parks would disturb parks’ natural quiet
• Press Release Park Advocates Fire Back on Wyoming’s Grizzly Hunting Plan Apr 2018 More than 160 former National Park Service employees and over 22,000 Park Advocates call on Wyoming Governor Matt Mead to reject hunting proposal that threatens Grand Teton and Yellowstone grizzlies.
• Press Release New Study Suggests Decrease in Wolf Sightings at Denali and Yellowstone Linked to Hunting and Trapping Near Park Boundaries Apr 2016 The study raises immediate concerns from National Parks Conservation Association as data attributes decreased wolf sightings to states that allow wolf hunting to occur next to park boundaries.
• Press Release Landmark Energy Plan Protects Arches, Canyonlands National Parks Jul 2016 Plan underscores economic importance of national parks, provides model for coexistence of energy development and park visitation
• Press Release Groups Defend National Parks From BP Cherry Point Refinery Pollution Jun 2017 NPCA is challenging oil giant BP’s expansion permit in Whatcom County, WA, for failure to protect air quality of Olympic National Park and North Cascades National Park
• Blog Post VIDEO: Native Birds and Wildlife Make a Comeback at Channel Islands National Park Mar 2013 | By Jennifer Errick Yesterday, the Park Service released more good news from Channel Islands National Park. Just a few weeks after biodiversity advocates celebrated the recovery of the night lizard on these protected islands, park officials and their partners are now sharing dramatic findings on improvements to bird populations and other native wildlife at Anacapa Island, one decade after removing invasive rats from the ecosystem.
• Blog Post Miami-Area Partnership Gets Urban Youth Involved in Protecting Parks Jul 2013 | By Hayley Mortimer We can inspire more kids in more communities to get involved in using their voices to protect national parks. It is a win-win-win for the organizers, the youth, and the parks!
• Blog Post Trivia Challenge: Parks in the Arctic Sep 2014 | By Jennifer Errick Q: Alaska is home to nearly two-thirds of the land in the entire National Park System—some 54 million acres in all. But only four of our 401 U.S. national park sites lie entirely north of the Arctic Circle. Can you name these four sites?
• Press Release Farm Bill Safeguards National Parks, Provides Funding for Conservation and Climate Change Programs Dec 2018 The new farm bill is a major victory for conservation, wildlife, public lands and waters, and communities.
• Press Release Senate Bill Will Help Protect National Parks Across the Country Jul 2010 Full funding for Land and Water Conservation Fund restores decades long promise
• Press Release On the Heels of Proposed Grizzly Delisting, Lawsuit Challenges Wildlife Management at Grand Teton National Park Mar 2016 NPCA is fighting a dangerous, precedent-setting decision by the National Park Service that puts wildlife at risk in Grand Teton National Park.
• Blog Post FAQ: What the New Fee Increases Will Mean for Visitors and Parks Apr 2018 | By John Garder The Trump administration has backed off its original plan to impose steep entrance fee increases at 17 national parks during peak visiting season, opting for more moderate increases at all the park sites that collect fees. Here’s what the plan will cost visitors and where those fees will go.
• Blog Post Emotional and Financial Toll of Government Shutdown Hits Home for National Park Service Personnel Oct 2013 | By Emily Douce More than 21,000 Park Service staff have been furloughed indefinitely, and the park rangers who still have jobs are taking heat for doing their jobs.
• Report Best Practices in Friends Groups and National Parks As budgets have grown tighter in recent years, partnerships have become the way for parks to accomplish more with less. Most parks look to their Friends Group for access to resources that would otherwise be unavailable.
• Report Center for State of the Parks: Gateway National Recreation Area Using NPCA’s Center for State of the Parks comprehensive methodology, current overall conditions of Gateway’s known natural resources scored 53 out of 100, which is a “poor” rating. Overall conditions of the park’s known cultural resources scored 46 out of a possible 100, indicating “poor” conditions.
• NPCA at Work Support Increased National Park Funding Preserving America’s heritage should be a bipartisan issue.
• Report Center for State of the Parks: Assateague Island National Seashore Current overall conditions of Assateague’s natural resources rated a “fair” score of 75 out of 100. Overall conditions of the park’s known cultural resources rated a score of 58 out of 100, indicating “poor” conditions.
• Report Center for State of the Parks: Big Hole National Battlefield Current overall conditions of Big Hole National Battlefield’s known cultural and natural resources rated “fair” scores of 70 and 74, respectively. This report contains descriptions of park resources and summaries of resource conditions.
• NPCA at Work An Oil Refinery Has No Place Next to Theodore Roosevelt National Park Protect the iconic North Dakota badlands from an ill-conceived facility that would pollute the air
• Staff Katherine DeGroff Associate Editor Katherine works out of the Washington, D.C., office as associate editor of National Parks magazine. Before joining NPCA, Katherine monitored easements at land trusts in Virginia and New Mexico, encouraged bear-aware behavior at Grand Teton National Park, and served as a naturalist for a small environmental education organization in the heart of the Colorado Rockies.
• Park Mojave National Preserve Mojave National Preserve's vast expanse of desert lands includes one of the most diverse desert environments in the world, representing three of the four major North American deserts: the Mojave, Great Basin and Sonoran. The preserve is a land of old mountain ranges, sand dunes, great mesas and volcanic features such as cinder cones, domes and lava flows.
• NPCA at Work Trump Administration Seeks to Undermine Methane Rules Prioritizing industrial development over public and environmental health, two federal agencies seek to reverse course on methane standards that would improve air quality, benefit taxpayers and reduce climate change affecting national parks.
• NPCA at Work Don't Cut Funding to the Chesapeake The Chesapeake watershed supports the health of more than 50 national parks, and we can't afford to reverse important gains to water quality and habitat restoration
• Staff Erika Pollard Associate Director, Southwest Region Erika is a Senior Program Manager in the Southwest region. She focuses primarily on issues concerning the national parks in Utah.
• Staff Cara Capp Everglades Restoration Senior Program Manager Cara works to restore and protect natural resources in and around Florida's national parks as the Sun Coast's Everglades Restoration Senior Program Manager.
• Park George Washington Carver National Monument Explore George Washington Carver’s home and farm from which he revolutionized 19th Century farming and sustainable agriculture. The park also features his “Secret Garden” which shows his love for the natural world.
• Staff Sarah Gaines Barmeyer Senior Managing Director of Conservation Programs Sarah Barmeyer is senior managing director for NPCA’s Conservation Programs where she coordinates priority initiatives for water restoration, landscape conservation, wildlife, and clean air.
• Report A History Timeline of Wolf Buffers from Denali Citizen's Council A history timeline of wolf buffers from Denali Citizen's Council
• Staff Erika Pelletier Associate Director Erika is the Associate Director of the Texas and Oklahoma Regional Office.

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