Search results for “Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site”
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Park Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site recreates one America's oldest and most productive "iron plantations." Tour historic structures and experience a miner's life in the 1840s.
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Park Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site tells the story of the first African Americans to train as U.S. Army pilots and ground support during World War II.
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Park Steamtown National Historic Site Steamtown interprets the story of main line steam railroading between 1850 and 1950.
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Park Pea Ridge National Military Park This 4,500-acre park commemorates the 1862 Civil War Battle of Pea Ridge, known locally as the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern. The battle was a culmination of a series of skirmishes that took place in both southwest Missouri and northwest Arkansas in the days preceding the larger conflict. Union soldiers had been moving south from central Missouri, pushing Confederate forces out of the state into northwestern Arkansas. Confederates launched a counter-offensive to try to regain control of northern Arkansas and Missouri. During the two-day battle, Union forces held off the Confederate attack, then drove the Confederate soldiers off the field. After the Battle of Pea Ridge was over, the Union would control both northern Arkansas and Missouri for the duration of the war. This battle is one of the few where the number of soldiers in the Confederate army outnumbered the Union. Today, thanks to its largely rural setting, the Pea Ridge National Military Park is one of the best-preserved Civil War battlefields in the nation.
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Resource National Parks Affected by 9B Rules These 40 parks have active oil and gas wells or are at risk of future oil and gas development within their boundaries.
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Park Sitka National Historical Park This site became Alaska’s first national park in 1910, preserving the cultural history of Southeast Alaskan Native tribes and the grounds of the 1804 Battle of Sitka in which Russian forces permanently displaced Tlingit people from their ancestral lands. One of the remarkable sights at the park is the Totem Trail, featuring Tlingit and Haida totem poles along a scenic coastal path. The park also preserves the Russian Bishop's House, one of the few surviving examples of Russian colonial architecture in North America. The park's diverse marine and forest habitat attract a variety of wildlife, including many different migratory birds.
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Magazine Article Deep Listening How can the world’s largest collection of underwater sound recordings help scientists understand sea creatures and the noise pollution that may be killing them?
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Magazine Article Golden Spike Redux The role that Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad has long been buried. 150 years after the completion of the tracks, that’s finally changing.
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Magazine Article The Octogenarian and the Monolith At 87, Robert Kelman is the oldest person to climb Devils Tower.
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Magazine Article Dress Rehearsal An emergency at the Grand Canyon provides plenty of lessons for Park Service staff and other federal agencies.
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Magazine Article Prairie Solitaire In the middle of America, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve offers an intimate, grounding experience.
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Press Release Public Lands, Clean Air and Water Lose with Trump Administration Infrastructure Proposal “Strengthening infrastructure within our national parks and across the country should not come at the expense of weakening environmental protections – period." -- Theresa Pierno
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Magazine Article Standing Guard Meet America’s Buffalo Soldiers—some of the nation’s first park rangers.
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Magazine Article Divine Providence The 17th-century minister Roger Williams risked his life to be the first American to preach religious freedom.
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Blog Post Knope Says Yup Washington, DC – The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) congratulates Leslie Knope on her decision to join the National Park Service as Midwest Regional Director. The newly created position will keep Leslie in her hometown of Pawnee, Indiana.
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Press Release Offshore Leasing Plan Threatens National Parks, Wildlife and Coastal Communities Atlantic, Pacific coasts could be open to leasing for first time in decades.
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Blog Post Headed to a Park with Your Camera? Read These Tips! Bringing your camera on a park trip? Before you pack your bags, read these tips to add interest and variety to your photographs. Thousands of people capture the same iconic landscapes and monuments over and over again in their travel pictures—here’s how to make your shots stand out.
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Blog Post Labor Day Has Its Roots in Chicago's Historic Pullman Neighborhood The stories of Pullman are American stories. They are stories of hard work, immigration, race and class, wealth and poverty, and a struggle for justice.
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Press Release President to Designate National Park at Pullman, Marking America's Labor and Civil Rights Movement Statement by Lynn McClure, Midwest Senior Director, NPCA
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Blog Post Capturing Wild Animals — in Pictures A team of students traveled to Stones River National Battlefield in Tennessee to learn camera-trapping — taking pictures of animals in the wild. See photos from their award-winning project.
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Blog Post Energy Development on Public Lands: The Next Four Years On the eastern side of Glacier National Park, rugged peaks give way to high plains where the Glacier border meets Blackfeet tribal lands. On these lands next door to Glacier, oil and gas companies are in the early stages of exploration.
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Policy Update Position on Waters of the U.S. Regulations NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works ahead of a hearing scheduled for June 12, 2019.
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Blog Post 6 Tips to Keep Parks — and Yourself — Safe Celebrities don’t always set a good example for how to behave on public lands — but you can. These tips are sensible and easy to follow, and they’ll help you be a good park steward while avoiding embarrassment on social media.
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Press Release America's Great Waters Coalition Designates New Waterways to Advocate for Restoration Needs Coalition adds Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, St. Johns and Hudson Rivers
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Magazine Article The Census Taker Alex Mintzer has been counting ant colonies at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument for more than 30 years.
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Magazine Article Reporting for Duty The Park Service shuttered its Morning Report in 2015 after a 30-year run, but the longtime editor has a few more things to say.
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Magazine Article The Lion Catcher Biologist Eric York lived to help wild carnivores, but he didn’t get a chance to finish his life’s work.
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Blog Post 9 Romantic Park Trips for You and Your Valentine Whether you want to live it up near the city lights or get away from it all under the starlight, national parks provide a wealth of amorous adventures for you and your Valentine.
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Magazine Article In the Balance In his 1968 book about Arches, "Desert Solitaire," Edward Abbey warned that tourists and cars would destroy the park he loved. Was he right?
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Blog Post 20 Years of “Helping Hands for Public Lands” Celebrate National Public Lands Day this month by helping out at a park you love
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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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Magazine Article First Impressions A Connecticut farm tells the story of painter Julian Alden Weir, who helped introduce Americans to Impressionism.
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Press Release National Parks Group Echoes Former Interior Secretary's Call to Preserve Public Lands Statement by Tom Kiernan, President, National Parks Conservation Association
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Blog Post Commercial Beef Cattle in America’s National Parks: Are You Serious? Cattle grazing is not compatible with responsible public land management practices in most cases. Yet new legislation could double the length of time commercial ranchers can graze their animals.
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Blog Post The Art, Science and Economics of Cherry Blossom Forecasting A highly unusual year for D.C.'s famous cherry trees forces festival organizers to scramble and may leave thousands of travelers disappointed.
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Blog Post NPCA's 10 Under 40 Meet the next generation of leaders protecting national parks and public lands
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Report Sourcebook for National Park Gateway Communities: Delaware River Preserving community character, promoting park and community health, and stimulating local economies
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Video Hear Our Olympics Come explore the incredible soundscape of Olympic National Park in our new short film.
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Report Spoiled Parks The threat to our coastal national parks from expanded offshore drilling
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Report A Healthy Advantage The Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) Active Plan is a blueprint for a 428-mile trail network that will link the rich natural, cultural and historical resources of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
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