Search results for “Glen Canyon National Recreation Area”
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Magazine Article Wild Run The documentary “This Land,” an exploration of public lands, conservation and racial justice, follows filmmaker and advocate Faith E. Briggs as she runs 150 miles through three national monuments.
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Blog Post 5 Ways to Celebrate National Park Week All national parks are waiving their entrance fees on Saturday, April 20, for the kickoff to National Park Week.
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Blog Post Masks Required at National Parks: What to Know Before You Go Staff and visitors must now wear masks in federal buildings and facilities, as well as at outdoor attractions where distancing isn't possible.
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Magazine Article On the Rocks She went to City of Rocks and Castle Rocks to climb. Then it rained. And hailed. And snowed.
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Blog Post Five Park Stories That Will Make Your Friday—and Where to Share Yours When NPCA invited supporters to share their stories and photos on our new website, MyParkStory.org, we could hardly have anticipated the amazing responses we would get from some of the biggest fans of the national parks. As someone who has had the privilege of reading most of these heartfelt contributions, I can’t help but share a handful of my favorites.
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Magazine Article Hire Education The Park Service and Student Conservation Association team up to show Native Alaskan youth some new career options.
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Magazine Article Early Birds & Night Owls Could a trio of devoted birders break a Washington, D.C., bird-watching record set in 1989?
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Blog Post The First Park with a Million Visitors The 1930s brought big changes to the National Park System, setting the stage for large increases in tourism, including the first national park site to welcome more than 1 million annual visitors.
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Policy Update Position on Amendments to H.R. 3055, FY20 Appropriations Minibus NPCA submitted the following positions to the Senate ahead of anticipated floor votes the week on October 28, 2019.
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Blog Post Fifty Years Later: Wilderness & Civil Rights in the Same Breath This summer marks the 50-year anniversary of two landmark pieces of legislation—the Civil Rights Act and the Wilderness Act—that are linked more closely than they might seem.
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Magazine Article The Alaska Experiment Three decades after President Carter added 47 million acres of Alaska to the National Park System, managing those lands remains a complex and highly political effort.
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Press Release Spoiled Parks: Top 12 National Parks Threatened by Trump Administration's Energy Agenda Spoiled Parks explores how current leasing policies have scarred landscapes and threaten future harm to clean air, cultural heritage, wildlife and tourism economies.
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Press Release Parks Group Calls on Court to Block Construction of Dominion Power Line at Jamestown until Case is Heard Group Takes Emergency Legal Action to Prevent Irreparable Damage at Historic Sites
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Press Release Homestead Named Gateway to Everglades and Biscayne National Park Resolution approved by Homestead City Council brands city as a partner of our national parks
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Magazine Article The Lay of the Land Meet Frederick Law Olmsted, the man who created Central Park and defined landscape architecture.
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Press Release At Annual Conference, Everglades Coalition Offers Solutions to Address Florida’s Water Crisis Coalition’s roadmap provides four-year guide for funding needs and timely Everglades restoration projects to complete
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Press Release National Parks Plagued by Significant Air Pollution Impacts, Finds New Analysis Majority of Parks Experience Days Risky for Vulnerable Visitors; Four Parks Regularly Unsafe for Most People
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Magazine Article Remember Aunt Harriet She taught them courage and endurance. Now, Harriet Tubman’s descendants can pay their respects at a park honoring the great liberator.
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Press Release Protections Sought for Endangered Frogs, Snakes at Pacifica's Sharp Park Protections needed for endangered species in habitat adjoining national park properties
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Policy Update Testimony: Fiscal Year 2016 Interior Appropriations Written testimony by Craig Obey for the Public and Outside Witness Hearing for House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies on March 18, 2015.
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Press Release Judge Allows Conservation Groups to Defend Ventura County Wildlife Safeguards from Legal Challenge The First-Of-Their-Kind Ordinances Help Protect Local Wildlife But Have Been Challenged by Industry Groups
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Blog Post Fighting to Keep Alaska’s Rivers Wild Court’s decision in case over the use of hovercraft could have huge consequences for Alaska’s parks
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Magazine Article The Loneliest Land In 1888, writer Mary Hunter Austin began exploring the desert. Her love of the blunt, burned land of little rain led to a book, a career, and an environmental legacy.
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Press Release Everglades National Park Protected by Court Decision to Prevent Expansion of Urban Development Boundary After lengthy appeal process, the state of Florida denies Lowe's Land Use Change to build outside of Urban Development Boundary
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Magazine Article Mercury Rising? How dragonflies are helping scientists understand mercury pollution in parks.
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Blog Post What’s the Buzz? In 1860, one year before Confederate and Union armies collided for the First Battle of Bull Run, the rolling country meadows that one day would become Manassas National Battlefield Park saw an invasion of a very different kind. Swarms of cicadas (genus Magicicada) made their appearance, as they do just once every 17 years, filling the countryside with their noisy song and bumbling flight.
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Policy Update Position on S.32, California Desert Protection and Recreation Act NPCA submitted the following position to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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Blog Post The Elwha River, Free-Flowing at Last Six months in to the largest dam-removal project in U.S. history, a new video shows promising signs of progress.
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Blog Post 5 Sharks You'll Want to Meet — from a Distance — at National Parks Just in time for Shark Week: Learn about some of the most majestic and fascinating wildlife at our coastal parks.
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Press Release Salazar Visits New York City to Discuss Role of Urban Parks in America's Great Outdoors Statement by NPCA Northeast Senior Program Manager Oliver Spellman
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