Search results for “John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway”
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Blog Post Winter Rains Bring Blooms to Organ Pipe Once dubbed the most dangerous park in the country, these wild Arizona lands are fully reopened, noticeably restored and full of botanic wonders.
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Blog Post Sometimes You Need a Little Hubris A teenage cancer survivor shares why he chose to “Make a Wish” for the Boundary Waters
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Blog Post Trivia Challenge: The Park That Helped Americans Hide in Plain Sight In 1917, the United States entered World War I. It was also a century ago that the U.S. military created its first camouflage unit, and many of the pioneer "camoufleurs" either resided in or visited regularly what is now a national park site. Can you name this park?
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Blog Post New National Park Site Preserves Maine’s Vast Beauty President Obama celebrates the National Park Service's 100th birthday by creating America's newest national park site, the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. Here's a glimpse at what makes these vast boreal forests and free-flowing rivers so special, and how the region inspired early conservationists.
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Blog Post Judge’s Ruling a Victory for Buffalo National River A win for Arkansas’ Buffalo River: A judge will hold two agencies liable for a flawed environmental review process of a factory farm six miles upstream.
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Policy Update Position on S. 2839, S. 1662, S. 1696, S. 2412, S. 2548, S. 2627, S. 2805, S. 2807, S. 2954, S. 3020, S. 3027, S. 3028, S. 211, S. 1623, S. 1690 and S. 1824 NPCA submitted the following positions on bills being considered by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee National Parks subcommittee during a hearing on June 15, 2016.
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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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Press Release On Earth Day, Everglades National Park Gets Critical Freshwater with Additional Bridging of Tamiami Trail Major milestone for restoring America’s Everglades with the kickoff of an additional 2.6 miles of bridging on Tamiami Trail.
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Blog Post Vacation Planning? These Park Movies Will Help These 10 films can help inspire travel ideas from the comfort of your armchair with visions of national parks around the country.
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Press Release National Park Service to Receive $90 Million Grant for Most Urgent Memorial Bridge Repairs $250 Million Estimated Needed to Complete Repairs
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Magazine Article Under the Ice, Above the Clouds A team of scientists explores the mysteries of Mount Rainier’s Ice Caves.
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Magazine Article The War that Shaped America Nearly 150 years after the Civil War, Bill Gwaltney explains why its lessons are still relevant today.
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Press Release National Parks Conservation Association Encourages Guests to See America, at 35th Annual Salute to the Parks 35th annual celebration honors Creative Action Network and See America co-founders Max Slavkin and Aaron Perry-Zucker
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Policy Update Position on Draft Onshore Energy Bills NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources ahead of a hearing scheduled for June 6, 2018.
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Magazine Article A Ladder to the Top Thirty years ago, Vern Tejas overcame extreme cold and other dangers to become the first person to survive a winter solo ascent of Denali.
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Magazine Article Call of the Wild Eighty years ago, a biologist named George Melendez Wright reminded us that wolves, bison, and grizzlies came before people. And because of him, they still do.
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Magazine Article In Black and White A new exhibition documents Ansel Adams’ abiding passion for the national parks.
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Magazine Article Found Objects Two artists turn trash into treasures at Point Reyes National Seashore.
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Blog Post Perseid Meteor Shower: Things Are Looking Up Get yourself under a dark sky tonight for a chance to see a remarkable “outburst.”
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Blog Post Be One in a Million: Take the Summer Park Challenge! Kids need the outdoors, and the outdoors needs kids. Pledge to help get a million kids into national parks and other natural spaces this summer.
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Blog Post 23,743 Luminaries Commemorate the Battle of Shiloh Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee commemorated the 150th anniversary of what many consider to be the first major battle of the Civil War. Park officials honored the 23,743 casualties from that two-day battle by lighting candles throughout the battlefield in a "Grand Illumination"—a moving highlight to more than a week of related events at the park.
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Magazine Article Digging in Native Soil At Bighorn Canyon in Montana and Wyoming, an innovative archaeological field school partners with descendant communities.
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Press Release Momentum Builds to Address National Park Maintenance Needs House Natural Resource Committee moves Restore Our Parks and Public Lands Act forward to address $12B in repair needs at America's national parks.
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Magazine Article A Rising Star Could the Lone Star Coastal National Recreation Area become the country’s next park unit?
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Magazine Article A Wing and a Prayer Want to spot a Colima warbler in the United States? Head to Big Bend National Park—and cross your fingers.
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Press Release Key Stakeholders Endorse Presidio Exchange but Urge Trust Board to Delay Crissy Field Development Decision Lucas Museum proposal rejected as wholly inappropriate for and unrelated to prized national park land
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Magazine Article Saving Goliath Can a tiny beetle rescue Shenandoah’s mighty hemlocks?
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Press Release Unanimous Support for Creating First National Park Site for LGBT History Shared at Public Meeting in New York City Hundreds attend public discussion on proposal to honor location of Stonewall Uprising as the first national park site dedicated to LGBT equal rights.
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Press Release National Parks Group Defends Park Service’s Authority to Manage Its Waterways NPCA is siding with the National Park Service as the U.S. Supreme Court takes up Sturgeon v. Frost, a lawsuit challenging the park service’s authority to manage activities on navigable rivers within parks in Alaska.
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Magazine Article Renaissance Man Frederick Douglass’s home tells the story of a man who overcame enormous obstacles and paved the way for others to do the same.
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