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• Press Release New Study Valuing America’s National Parks at $92 Billion Underscores their Value, Illustrating the Need to Better Fund Them Jun 2016 But Pending Spending Bill would Harm Parks
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 538 Native American Energy Act Oct 2015 NPCA urges members of the House of Representatives to vote NO on H.R. 538, the Native American Energy Act. This position was sent to all members of the House of Representatives ahead of a floor vote on October 8, 2015.
• Blog Post Small Potatoes in a Big Standoff Oct 2013 | By Craig Obey After an agonizing 16-day impasse, Congress and the administration finally reopened the federal government on October 17 and authorized a short-term resolution that will fund national parks through January 15, 2014. We missed these places, and we’re happy to see open signs replace closed signs at last. The fight to adequately fund America’s most inspirational places is not over, however. This stopgap measure, while necessary, continues a slow-motion shutdown in our National Park System that needs to end.
• Magazine Article Flight Tracking Summer 2014 | By Eric Wagner At Governors Island National Monument, biologists are discovering how birds navigate through New York City’s skyscrapers.
• Magazine Article A Wing and a Prayer Summer 2014 | By Nicholas Lund Want to spot a Colima warbler in the United States? Head to Big Bend National Park—and cross your fingers.
• Magazine Article Back to the Land Fall 2012 | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan What on Earth does farming have to do with the Chesapeake Bay? As it turns out, everything.
• Magazine Article The Last Wolf? Winter 2014 | By Laurie McClellan Should biologists step in to save Isle Royale’s wolves or let nature take its course?
• Policy Update Position on S. 15 and S. 1230 Jun 2015 NPCA submitted the following positions on legislation being considered by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on June 9, 2015.
• Press Release Oil and Gas Development Delayed Near Carlsbad Caverns National Park Jul 2018 Bureau of Land Management temporarily deferred lease sales to study the local geology and its interaction with groundwater
• Policy Update Position on S. 437, S. 1416, S. 3317, S. 2991 and S. 3203 Sep 2016 NPCA submitted the following positions to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources ahead of a hearing on September 22, 2016.
• Policy Update Testimony: Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Modernization Act Oct 2015 Written testimony by John Garder regarding the discussion draft of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Modernization Act for House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands hearing on October 28, 2015.
• Policy Update Position on Deferred Maintenance Needs and Potential Solutions Jun 2019 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.
• Magazine Article Park Ink Winter 2022 | By Katherine DeGroff This niche community is obsessed with national parks, and these folks have the stamps to prove it.
• Magazine Article Out with the Old, In with the New Winter 2022 | By Julia Busiek A generation ago, thousands of people gathered in a remote corner of New Mexico to usher in a gentler, kinder age. Did it work?
• Magazine Article Drilling in National Parks? Fall 2018 | By Mike Wirth Oil and gas development already is harming dozens of national park sites around the country. It could get much worse.
• Magazine Article A Prescription For Nature Spring 2014 | By Daphne Miller, MD A physician who prescribes outdoor activities for her patients believes that time spent in nature could become the next vital sign.
• Blog Post Slowing Energy Development on Public Lands While the Nation Is in Turmoil Jun 2020 | By Matthew Kirby The Bureau of Land Management recently extended comment periods for a land management planning process in New Mexico due to the pandemic. We must do this in other parts of the country, too.
• Press Release Proposal to Allow Commercial Rocket Launches Threatens Cumberland Island National Seashore Mar 2018 If this proposal moves forward, rockets would be launched over Cumberland Island National Seashore, putting park resources and visitors at risk.
• Magazine Article On the Road Spring 2011 | By Aimee Lyn Brown Take a drive through the national parks of Oregon & California and witness a land of extremes.
• Magazine Article Call in the Wild Summer 2021 | By Kevin Grange Search and rescue, CPR, a hair-raising ambulance ride. All in a day’s work for a paramedic in Yosemite.
• Magazine Article Bearing Witness Spring 2015 | By Kate Siber Bearcams in Katmai National Park and Preserve are capturing impressive scenes from the wild—and changing the nature of park visitation.
• Blog Post Tule Springs Could Be Our Newest National Monument, Thanks in Part to One Dedicated Volunteer Mar 2012 | By Lynn Davis When Jill DeStefano moved from Florida to Las Vegas in 2006, she pictured leisurely mornings, afternoons of mahjong or bridge, and quiet evenings on the patio, watching the sun set. Little did she know she would take on a campaign to make the area near her home a new national monument, managed by the National Park Service.
• Policy Update Testimony: Public Witness Day for FY22 Appropriations Apr 2021 Written testimony by John Garder, NPCA Senior Director of Budget and Appropriations, for the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies
• Policy Update Position on the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act of 2021 May 2021 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works ahead of a hearing scheduled for May 26, 2021.
• Policy Update Position on the nomination of Tommy Beaudreau as Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior Apr 2021 Ahead of an anticpated hearing to consider the nomination of Tommy Beaudreau, NPCA sent the following letter to Senators sitting on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. 
• Policy Update Position on the nomination of Shannon Estenoz as DOI Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks May 2021 NPCA sent the following letter to Senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee ahead of a hearing scheduled for May 12th, 2021. 
• Blog Post Parks in Peril: Can We Protect Utah's Desert Parks from Energy Development? Nov 2015 | By Nicholas Lund After 8 years of work by a movement of energy advocates, Arches and Canyonlands could soon gain unprecedented protections from oil and gas development. But we need your help.
• Press Release Parks Project Recognized with First-Ever National Park Defender Award Apr 2021 NPCA celebrates Parks Project for their considerable contributions to and in support of our national park conservation work.
• Blog Post It's the Best Year to Enjoy National Parks: 10 Reasons Why Jan 2016 | By Nicolas Brulliard It's the 100th birthday of the National Park Service, with opportunities to celebrate the parks throughout 2016. From planting a “Centennial Forest” in Texas to counting species of plants and animals on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., here are 10 ways to take your appreciation for national parks to historic levels in 2016.
• Blog Post 10 Places Everyone Should See in Alabama’s Black Belt May 2021 | By Emily Jones Legislation introduced today in Congress would preserve one of the most culturally rich parts of the South. Never been to the Black Belt? Here’s what you’re missing.

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