Search results for “Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument”
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Park Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument This monument preserves a dramatic cinder cone volcano with colorful mineral deposits at its rim and cinder fields and lava flows at its base that erupted sometime between 1040 and 1100 A.D.—the most recent volcanic eruption in the Colorado Plateau. The park also protects more than 3,000 acres around the volcano dotted with pine and aspen trees, shrubs, and wildflowers. Local citizens lobbied for protection of Sunset Crater Volcano after a Hollywood film company made plans to blast the volcano with explosives to simulate a landslide for a movie; President Herbert Hoover preserved the volcano by declaring it a national monument in 1930.
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Park Stonewall National Monument This monument represents a watershed moment in the modern LGBTQ civil rights movement, when a week-long uprising in 1969 sparked sustained determination among LGBTQ Americans to fight for full equality and civil and human rights. The Stonewall uprising was a protracted struggle in which the LGBTQ community in New York City fought back against what had become regular, city-sanctioned harassment by the police. The spontaneous six-night conflict gained national attention and inspired a new movement for full equality and acceptance. Stonewall National Monument is the first national park site dedicated to LGBTQ history.
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Park Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument This arid desert wash 30 minutes north of Las Vegas was once a lush wetland, home to some of the most massive and unusual species ever to walk the continent.
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Park Waco Mammoth National Monument What began as a search by two men in 1978 for snakes near the Bosque River became the first and only recorded discovery of a nursery herd of Pleistocene mammoths in the United States. Since its discovery, researchers have unearthed the remains of at least 24 Columbian mammoths, including a large male mammoth as well as the remains of a camel and the tooth of a juvenile saber-toothed cat. The 107-acre site is now an educational and tourism destination, attracting 20,000 visitors a year, including large groups of schoolchildren.
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Park Walnut Canyon National Monument Learn what it was like to live in the small, ancient cliff dwellings that dot the rim of this canyon, built by the Sinagua people, the first permanent inhabitants of the region. Walk the Rim Trail for scenic views, or hike into the canyon to explore the dwellings up close.
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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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Policy Update NPCA position on the potential nomination of William Pendley NPCA, along with partners, submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources regarding the nomination of William Pendley to lead the Bureau of Land Management.
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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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Magazine Article Mussel Power Mollusks are the latest weapon in the battle to clean up the D.C. waterway once known as the Forgotten River.
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Blog Post How Can Congress Fund More Park Projects for the Next Century? Here’s One Way The Centennial Challenge will leverage funding from a variety of sources to improve the experience for national park visitors.
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Blog Post If You Want Jobs and Justice, Keep Our National Parks Open The National Park Service needs to do more to connect diverse communities with public lands — and we need to support and fund them.
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Policy Update Position on Deferred Maintenance Needs and Potential Solutions 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.
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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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Policy Update Position on FY16 Omnibus Appropriations Bill NPCA urges the Senate and House of Representatives to consider a few significant concerns about the Interior and Environment portion of the FY16 omnibus appropriations bill.
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Blog Post NPCA's Favorite Trips The summer travel season is here, and all 397 national parks will offer free admission this Saturday, June 9 for National Get Outdoors Day. Here are a few NPCA staff favorite destinations that are a little off the beaten path.
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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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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 Ocmulgee River Water Trail Receives Visibility Boost with New Public River Landing Signage Funding awarded to seven middle Georgia counties for 30 new signs
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Blog Post Park Service Releases Most-Visited National Park Sites of 2014 Yesterday, the National Park Service released data on the number of people who visited sites throughout the park system in 2014. The whopping 292.8 million total visits broke the previous record of 287.2 million visits set in 1987 and was 7 percent higher than the 273.6 million visits throughout the park system in 2013.
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Press Release Parks Group Sues EPA Over Delay of Ozone Protections EPA’s action puts public health, national parks at risk.
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Blog Post My Members of Congress Are Friends of the National Parks. Are Yours? 228 members of Congress received NPCA’s Friend of the National Parks Award for their support of the National Park System through legislative votes in the 113th Congress (2013-2014).
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Blog Post Mormon Pioneer Highlights Fierce Determination in a Rugged Landscape 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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Blog Post An Auspicious Return Have pronghorn reclaimed Death Valley?
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Blog Post Visits to National Parks in 2015 Top 300 Million for the First Time National parks saw their highest visitation ever in 2015, with more than 307 million recreational visits. This marks a nearly 5% increase from 2014.
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Magazine Article Objects of Affection You see their work in visitor centers scattered across the nation—18th-century paintings by our nation’s early masters, mahogany desks where historic speeches were penned, early photographs of abolitionists, and authentic uniforms from Civil War soldiers. Meet the talented people who preserve the age-old artifacts that tell America’s stories.
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Blog Post Small Potatoes in a Big Standoff 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.
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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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Policy Update NPCA letter outlining considerations regarding border wall funding NPCA, along with partners, sent the following letter to bicameral appropriations leaders outling budgetary considerations for funding along the United States southern border.
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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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Magazine Article Home of the Brave Boston’s national parks lead visitors back in time to our nation’s beginnings.
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Blog Post Just in Time for World Water Day, President’s Budget Proposes Severe Cuts to Water Funding Last week’s proposed federal budget poses serious concerns for America’s waters and the millions of people who depend on them.
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Blog Post 50 Years Later: Reflecting on the Significance of Earth Day The first Earth Day launched her career as an environmental historian and her path as an activist. Now, even as the pandemic keeps her at home, she commemorates the lasting significance of the Earth Day movement.
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Blog Post Focus on Water: Celebrating Everglades Victories and Looking Forward Coalition harnesses bipartisan enthusiasm to set priorities for Everglades funding and revitalization
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Blog Post VIDEO: New Park Service Series Explores White-Nose Syndrome and the Threat to Bats Educational campaign aims to enlist more humans in efforts to prevent widespread bat mortality.
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Blog Post NPCA, Park Ranger Group Take Fracking Message to Congress NPCA and Park Rangers for Our Lands help raise awareness about the danger of fracking near public lands with new research.
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