Search results for “April Mims”
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Magazine Article A Thousand Miles in a Hundred Days Photographer Carlton Ward, Jr., leads a team of explorers on an ambitious, self-propelled journey through the Everglades and beyond.
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Blog Post Who Counts? A Closer Look at Parks’ Record Visitation Numbers Every year, the Park Service releases its official statistics on visitation at national park sites around the country. How does the agency come up with these numbers? With vehicle multipliers, regression formulas, and other unusual procedures, the answer is anything but simple.
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Blog Post Placing Washington, D.C. The paradox of how 10 square miles between Maryland and Virginia became the nation’s capital — through a culture of slavery and a coincidence of geography
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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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Blog Post An Auspicious Return Have pronghorn reclaimed Death Valley?
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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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Blog Post Why I’m Celebrating My 30th Birthday at All 400-Plus National Parks I'm hitting the road this month to become the youngest person to see every national park site in the country — and the only person to do it all in a single trip.
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Blog Post Video: Oil Trucks Mow Down Trees at National Preserve NPCA's staff and partners were appalled to learn of the conditions inside Big Cypress.
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Blog Post Take Action to Protect Yosemite Valley’s Wild and Scenic Merced River There are few places better known or more loved than Yosemite National Park. As a transplanted Californian originally from Iowa, it wasn’t until I was in my 20s that I first emerged from the park’s famous Tunnel View to the jaw-dropping, iconic sight of El Capitan and Bridalveil Falls rising from the Valley floor and Half Dome shining in the background.
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Magazine Article An Audacious Fight Force-feeding and imprisonment could not stop suffragist Alice Paul’s march forward. A new park site would tell her story.
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Press Release Organizations Welcome EPA’s Plans to Reconsider Ozone Standards Stronger standards are long overdue to protect nature from dangerous ozone pollution
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Magazine Article Hunt and Gather Fish? Blueberries? Candy? New research in Voyageurs National Park shows wolves aren’t exactly the diehard meat eaters of legend.
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Blog Post Unlikely Activists Help Defend Yellowstone from Mining Threat How a trio of Montanans found themselves persuading Congress and the administration to permanently protect Yellowstone and their homes from industrial-scale mines.
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Magazine Article Growing up with Gettysburg Over the decades, the park changed. So did I.
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Magazine Article Striking Desert Gold Will a wet winter bring a spring super bloom to Death Valley?
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Press Release Parks Group Files Legal Brief Supporting Challenge of Illegal Removal of Clean Water Protections Amicus brief argues new unlawful water regulation will negatively impact health of national parks and surrounding communities.
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Blog Post 10 National Park Trip Ideas for President Trump Would President Trump do more to protect national parks if he took time to visit them? Here are 10 inspirational places I’d put at the top of his bucket list.
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Press Release Coalition Shares Plans to Continue Momentum for Restoring America's Everglades at Annual Conference 'America’s Everglades: Our Legacy, Our Future' conference aimed at identifying restoration progress and challenges moving forward
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Blog Post Working Toward Change, One Ride at a Time A sister and brother push their physical limits to take on the worst battle facing this generation—climate change
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Magazine Article Golden Spike Redux The role that Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad has long been buried. 150 years after the completion of the tracks, that’s finally changing.
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Magazine Article The Distant Rumble of White Thunder A family’s year-long quest to explore America’s most endangered parks brings them to Glacier Bay, Alaska.
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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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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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Magazine Article Dress Rehearsal An emergency at the Grand Canyon provides plenty of lessons for Park Service staff and other federal agencies.
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Magazine Article The Land of Fog and Sea A one-time Californian returns to Point Reyes.
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Magazine Article A Breath of Fresh Air EPA is renewing its vow to protect our most sacred views.
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Press Release Zinke to Trump: Remove Protections and Gut National Monuments News Report Reveals Administration’s Attempt to Dismantle 10 Places Protected by Past Republican and Democratic Presidents
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Magazine Article The Space Between Things A writer returns to the Grand Canyon again and again. And again.
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Press Release Alternative Spring Break Brings Passionate Students to Cuyahoga Valley National Park Students spend break working on projects for Cuyahoga Valley trail and habitat restoration
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Magazine Article Exiled to Paradise Kalaupapa National Historical Park celebrates the triumph of the human spirit over Hansen’s disease.
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