Search results for “Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area”
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Park Golden Gate National Recreation Area This recreation area encompasses more than two dozen natural, historic and cultural sites in and around the city of San Francisco. Experience the isolation of Alcatraz, America’s first “supermax” prison. Stroll beneath towering trees in Muir Woods. Walk on the beach at the Marin Headlands. Scan the horizon from the 150-year-old Point Bonita Lighthouse. Tour half a dozen operational and shuttered military facilities, including an active missile site. Hike miles of trails and enjoy unforgettable ocean views.
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Park Fort Laramie National Historic Site Originally established as a private fur trading fort in 1834, Fort Laramie evolved into the largest and best known military post on the Northern Plains before its abandonment in 1890. This “grand old post” at the confluence of the Laramie River and the North Platte River in eastern Wyoming witnessed a sweeping saga of America’s western expansion and American Indian resistance to encroachment on indigenous territories.
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Park Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site Frederick Law Olmsted was one of the country's premiere landscape designers, best known as the architect of New York City’s Central Park. He had a lifelong interest in landscape design, traveling extensively to study the formal gardens of Europe and writing books about the role of landscape architecture in civilization. Olmsted was also a vocal abolitionist. He toured the South just prior to the Civil War, calling on President Lincoln to stop the spread of slavery to the western territories. Later in life, Olmsted moved to Boston, where he opened the first professional practice focused on landscape design. The Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site houses artifacts of his life, his writings, and his work.
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Park Fort Pulaski National Monument Fort Pulaski National Monument is located on Cockspur Island at the mouth of the Savannah River in Georgia. Built to protect the city of Savannah, the structure was part of a system of forts built to protect the United States after the War of 1812. Today it stands as one of the best-preserved examples of these coastal defenses.
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Park Fort Matanzas National Monument Built by the Spanish in 1742 to protect an inlet of the Matanzas River, this masonry fort near St. Augustine, Florida, was built on the site of a 16th century massacre. Twelve British ships were forced to retreat in a brief skirmish in 1742 as the fort was nearing completion. Today, the site preserves part of an intact barrier island ecosystem, including beaches and a nature trail.
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Blog Post Meet the Three People Least Impressed with the Grand Canyon Not everyone is amazed by the grandeur of the Grand Canyon—but these three unimpressed girls made one NPCA staffer love the park even more.
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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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Magazine Article What the Streams Say At Shenandoah National Park, research shows that the Clean Air Act is working—but in some places, healthy streams are still a distant dream.
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Press Release Already Short-Staffed Park Service Asked to Support Border Patrol Security This decision could have serious consequences for national parks already struggling with a reduction in staff.
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Magazine Article The Land of Fog and Sea A one-time Californian returns to Point Reyes.
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Blog Post Teen Ambassadors Paddle Voyageurs National Park and Advise the Park Service Staff from the National Park Service and two of its partner organizations just wrapped up the first year of an innovative new program aimed at getting youth interested in the national parks.
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Magazine Article The Indian Chief and the President In 1852, a 93-year-old Ojibwe chief traveled to Washington to stop the president from forcing his people off their ancestral lands.
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Magazine Article Garbage In, Garbage Out Volunteers and rangers removed more than 22,000 pounds of debris from Alaska’s national park beaches. But will the trash just come back?
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Press Release Colorado Air Quality Regulator Reverses Decision to Retire Coal Plants Early Air Quality Control Commission sides with corporate polluters over decision to force the early retirement of three coal plants
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Magazine Article My Maine A Maine native reflects on the state’s new national park.
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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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Press Release Parks Group Files Lawsuit to Protect Biscayne National Park The Park Service must establish a marine reserve and phase out commercial fishing in order to protect resources at Biscayne National Park. NPCA will hold them accountable.
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Blog Post Valley on Fire We are driving east on a rugged powerline road in Clark Mountain’s shadow. The 8,000-foot peak is covered in snow. Pinyon-juniper forest commands the windshield view, with Joshua tree woodland in the rearview. As we negotiate the rocky pass with its perilous drop-off, we see the shimmering dry lakebed of Ivanpah Valley encircled by tall mountain peaks.
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Press Release Plans to Kill Iconic Santa Monica Mountain Lion Sets a Dangerous Precedent Following the recent killing of livestock by the mountain lion known as P-45, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife issued a permit for the animal to be killed within 10 days. NPCA strongly opposes killing P-45, a top predator that plays a critical role in maintaining ecosystem health.
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Press Release American Indian and First Nations of Canada Tribes Sign Historic Agreement to Restore Bison The historic agreement formalizes intertribal collaboration to restore bison to tribal and appropriate non-tribal public lands.
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Magazine Article Like Clockwork Ready or not, the Brood X cicadas are coming — maybe to a park near you.
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Magazine Article Fired Up Prescribed fires are standard practice at sprawling landscapes throughout the West, and now the fields and forests at historic sites have become the Park Service’s latest target.
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Policy Update Position on S.941, Yellowstone Gateway Protection Act NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining ahead of a hearing scheduled for July 26, 2017.
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Magazine Article Forest Lights Are the synchronous fireflies of Great Smoky Mountains getting too popular?
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Press Release Restore a Nation Report Highlights Positive Economic Impact of National Parks Recommends funding restoration projects to create American jobs and address climate change
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Magazine Article John Brown’s Soul John Brown hoped to end slavery when he raided a federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859. His plan failed, but he still changed the course of history.
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Spotlight Gema Perez's Story Community activist Gema Perez experiences air quality challenges in California’s San Joaquin Valley and nearby national parks.
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Blog Post New Video Showcases Youth Who Love Gateway New storytelling tool is part of a new approach for engaging the next generation of park visitors through the Your Park! Your Health! program.
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Spotlight Akiima Price's Story Organizer Akiima Price knows the realities of connecting underserved communities of color to DC’s urban parks.
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Press Release Paving Paradise: Massive Development Proposal Advances at the Doorstep to Joshua Tree 5,000 acre housing development proposal threatens Joshua Tree National Park plant and wildlife, cultural sites and dark night skies
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Magazine Article Candid Cameras In national parks around the country, camera traps capture images that astonish, delight, inform, reveal — and have the power to change human behavior.
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Magazine Article A National Park Is Born White Sands National Monument becomes the country’s 62nd national park. What will change?
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Magazine Article Gentle Giants The national parks’ towering sequoias have thrived for thousands of years. Can they survive climate change?
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Blog Post Restoring Resiliency at Dyke Marsh A year ago, Superstorm Sandy slammed the East Coast, demonstrating once again the power of nature. It left behind $65 billion in damage affecting 24 states and 70 national parks.
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Magazine Article A Shoreline Rescue The National Park Service fights to bring Great Lakes’ piping plovers back from the brink.
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