Search results for “John Muir National Historic Site”
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Park Andrew Johnson National Historic Site This site in Greeneville, Tennessee, commemorates the life of Andrew Johnson, the 19th-century politician who became president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Johnson served in the turbulent Reconstruction period after the Civil War. Frequent clashes with Congress resulted in his becoming the first U.S. president to be impeached. The site includes Johnson's two homes, his tailor shop and his grave.
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Park Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park This national park protects the sites of four major Civil War battles, each of which has its own separate significance. Commemorating 85,000 injured and 15,000 dead soldiers, these sites are known collectively as “The Bloodiest Landscape in America.”
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Park Greenbelt Park An urban oasis in the historic New Deal Era town of Greenbelt, Maryland, this park offers nine miles of peaceful wooded trails and 174 secluded camp sites just 12 miles outside of Washington, DC.
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Park Golden Spike National Historical Park Golden Spike National Historic Site marks the spot where the Union and Central Pacific Railroads converged on May 10, 1869, creating the nation's first transcontinental railroad.
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Park General Grant National Memorial The memorial to former U.S. President and Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant, commonly known as Grant’s Tomb, is the largest mausoleum in North America. The site opened in 1897 after an enthusiastic grassroots fundraising effort raised about $600,000 from more than 90,000 people—much of it in pennies and dimes. The campaign was spearheaded by Richard T. Greener, the first African-American graduate of Harvard University, who credited Grant with enabling his success by ending the Civil War. When it first opened, more than half a million visitors a year flocked to pay their respects to the popular war hero, including Civil War veterans, many of whom had to be physically carried by park staff up the monument’s many steps.
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Magazine Article Mercury Rising? How dragonflies are helping scientists understand mercury pollution in parks.
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Blog Post Finding Beauty and History in New Mexico’s Sandstone NPCA’s traveling parkie beats the heat at an ancient watering hole and reads messages from the past at El Morro, the country’s second national monument
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Magazine Article Landscapes for the People Photographer George Grant has never been widely known, but his skillfully crafted work helped popularize the idea that the national parks belong to everyday Americans.
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Blog Post To Breathe Free... Lady Liberty's promise of refuge and hope must remain a promise made to all.
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Press Release Battlefield Coalition Unveils Findings of Year-long 'Wilderness Gateway Study' Cooperative effort provides framework for balancing preservation, development around national parks
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 307, H.R. 1088, H.R. 1179, H.R. 1487, & H.R. 2427 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands ahead of a hearing scheduled for May 22, 2019.
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Spotlight Harriet Tubman's Story How climate change is affecting the legacy of Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad and a national park’s landscape on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
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Press Release Attacks on Our National Monuments Continue; Zinke Report Recommends Gutting More Protections Monuments report shows administration’s plans to dismantle 10 places protected by past Republican and Democratic presidents.
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Press Release Trump Administration Delays Offshore Drilling Plan, Temporarily Protecting National Parks from Spills 68 coastal national parks could be susceptible to oil spills as a result of offshore drilling.
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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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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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Blog Post Why Science Matters for National Parks National parks have a long history of supporting scientific discovery. Let’s continue to fund the world-class research at our country’s most iconic and inspirational places.
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Magazine Article Nesting Instincts What happens when species protection trumps historical interpretation at Petersburg National Battlefield?
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Magazine Article Living History Learning about the last century from the oldest ranger in the National Park System.
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Policy Update Position on Management of Marine Conservation Areas NPCA submitted the following position to the Subcommittee on Water, Power, and Oceans of the House Committee on Natural Resources ahead of a hearing on March 15, 2017.
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Press Release Parks Group Files Brief in Support of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Through our amicus brief, we urge the courts to hold the government accountable for putting our public lands, including our national parks, in harm’s way.
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Press Release Groups Go To Court to Protect Buffalo National River from Factory Hog Farm Waste Lawsuit challenges federal loan guarantees for industrial swine facility in the Buffalo National River watershed
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Blog Post Hunting in the National Park System? Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill known as the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act which, if passed in the Senate in its current form, could allow hunting in units of the National Park System that currently do not permit it. NPCA strongly opposes this provision of the bill.
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Blog Post One Year Later: 5 Major Issues for National Parks in 2018 On the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration, NPCA is looking ahead at key fights to protect America’s national parks in 2018.
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Blog Post Charles Young Monument Preserves Enduring Legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers At the turn of the last century, a great American hero set an enduring standard of excellence that forged the basis of the modern National Park System.
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Magazine Article Sea Change Everglades National Park hopes to alter the tide of climate change and, perhaps, the future of park planning.
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Press Release Congresswoman Terri Sewell Introduces H.R. 4817 to Designate Birmingham’s Historic Civil Rights District as a National Park The City of Birmingham played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement and this national designation will forever cement its place in American history
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Magazine Article Where They Cried A historic trail marks the paths of thousands of Native Americans who endured a forced march in the 1830s.
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Magazine Article Sea Change New research shows how rising sea levels will affect national parks—and helps managers prepare for the worst.
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Blog Post Seeking Accountability for Park Police One year after the violent removal of peaceful protesters at Lafayette Park, many questions remain.
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Blog Post Exploring Our National Heritage This story is part of our series on national heritage areas, the large lived-in landscapes managed through innovative partnerships to tell America’s cultural history.
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Magazine Article In Other Words Reimagining park brochures for blind visitors.
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Press Release Telling Our Stories: President Obama Designates Honouliuli National Monument in Hawai'i Statement by Ron Sundergill, Pacific Region Senior Director, National Parks Conservation Association
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 2546, Protecting America's Wilderness Act NPCA submitted the following position on H.R. 2546 and proposed amendments to members of the House of Representatives ahead of floor vote scheduled for February 12, 2020.
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Press Release 75 National Parks Featured in New Keepsake, See America Book National Parks Conservation Association and the Creative Action Network announce a new keepsake book
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