Search results for “North Cascades National Park”
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Park North Cascades National Park North Cascades National Park Service Complex encompasses 684,000 acres of wilderness, trails and rivers, as well as Ross Lake and Lake Chelan National Recreation Areas. In this vast terrain are jagged mountains, hundreds of glaciers and old-growth forests that have never been cut, with large, magnificent trees and tiered canopies of fir, hemlock and cedar. The snowy winters at this park produce stunning waterfalls in the spring — a phenomenon that is so beloved, the Cascade Range is named for them.
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Park Tumacacori National Historical Park Tumacácori National Monument protects the ruins of three, seventeenth-century missions, Tumacácori, Calabazas, and Guevavi. Mission San José de Tumacácori was established in January 1691. Today it is fifty miles south of Tucson, Arizona and eighteen miles north of the international border with Mexico at Nogales, Arizona.
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Park Piscataway Park Protecting the view from George Washington's home across the river at Mount Vernon, Piscataway Park offers visitors walks along the Potomac River across freshwater tidal wetlands and on forested trails, and the opportunity to view remarkable wildlife including beavers and American bald eagles.
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Park New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park includes the world's largest museum to whaling, and the historic streets, homes, and chapel that inspired Moby Dick.
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Park River Raisin National Battlefield Park River Raisin is the site of the devastating January 1813 Battles of Frenchtown that occurred during the War of 1812. The killing and ransom of unprotected American prisoners galvanized America. The resulting polemical rally cry “Remember the Raisin” spurred America’s successful re-taking of the Northwest Territories.
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Fact Sheet Support National Park Funding in FY16 Next year’s 100th anniversary of the National Park System provides an exciting and historic opportunity to ensure our national parks have the resources they need to thrive in their second century and beyond. The centennial should catalyze a revitalized commitment to protect America’s most special places, as we saw with a renewed investment on the System’s 50th anniversary. The National Park Service is entrusted with these treasured sites, but it is Congress that is entrusted with making sure they will last.
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Press Release Parks Group Joins Conservation Community, Files Lawsuit after President Trump Illegally Axed Bears Ears National Monument President’s abuse of authority strips protections from a priceless cultural and natural heritage that belongs to all Americans.
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Press Release Legal Agreement Reached to Reduce Power Plant Pollution Damaging Southwest's National Parks, Navajo People Consent Decree will Cut Emissions from New Mexico's Four Corners Plant
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Press Release “Do Nothing” Ozone Rule Challenged by Parks, Health and Environmental Groups "The EPA must revise ozone standards to follow the science and protect the health of our people and environment; otherwise, the consequences could be dire.” - Stephanie Kodish, NPCA's Clean Air Program Director
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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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Press Release Hundreds of Diverse Community Groups Call On Congress To Protect Public Lands During National Park Week Coalition includes LGBT, labor, women’s, disability, civil rights, Hispanic, African-American, Asian-American and Native American voices.
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Press Release Parks Group Calls on EPA to Hold Polluter Accountable Intent to sue filed today against U.S. Steel following chemical Spill affecting Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
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Press Release Wilderness Victory for National Parks Interior Secretary Salazar Protects West Coast's First Marine Wilderness Area at Drakes Estero in Point Reyes National Seashore
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Press Release Repeal of Planning Rules a Loss for Parks, Public Congress eliminates opportunities for public input on landscape planning.
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Press Release National Parks Conservation Association Announces Former Discovery Channel Head W. Clark Bunting As New President and CEO W. Clark Bunting to oversee NPCA as President and CEO
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Press Release National Parks Vital to Administration's New Plan to Preserve America's Great Outdoors Statement by NPCA President Tom Kiernan
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Press Release Fact: Dismantling the Stream Protection Rule Endangers National Park Waterways A resolution introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives aims to dismantle the Stream Protection Rule, which safeguards streams from pollution created by mountaintop removal and surface coal mining.
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Press Release Fran Ulmer to Chair National Parks Conservation Association Board of Trustees Former lieutenant governor of Alaska to serve as chair of NPCA's Board of Trustees
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Blog Post Supporting the Regional Parks that 'Pay Huge Dividends' Ask someone to explain what a National Heritage Area (NHA) is, exactly, and you’re likely to get a long pause. At least, that’s what happened to me when I asked Annie Harris to fill me in. “It’s always hard to come up with some simple words,” she admits with a laugh.
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Press Release Park Supporters Continue to Speak Up and Fight Back for Our National Monuments These monuments are public lands, meant to be protected for and enjoyed by everybody, not sacrificed for mining and drilling for the gain of a few.
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Blog Post Sally Jewell: An Ideal Choice to Lead Our National Parks into Their Next Century To witness our new Interior Secretary Sally Jewell in her element, it helps to find her outdoors, whether she’s hiking a trail, paddling a kayak, or climbing a mountain. I know because I’ve gotten to share a number of excursions with her over the eight years she has served on NPCA’s board of trustees, and it’s given me insight into her character.
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Press Release President to Designate National Park at Pullman, Marking America's Labor and Civil Rights Movement Statement by Lynn McClure, Midwest Senior Director, NPCA
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Press Release Park Proposal for National Monument a Distraction Move by Utah Congressman Seen as Another Attempt to Dismantle Protections for Public Lands.
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Press Release Parks Group Disappointed by Administration's Decision Not to Protect Lands within Big Cypress National Preserve Statement by NPCA Director of Legislative and Government Affairs Kristen Brengel
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Press Release Parks group welcomes bipartisan bill to make Amache a National Historic Site The Amache National Historic Site Act will permanently protect the former incarceration camp and ensure the survivors’ stories are told and remembered
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Press Release Consumer Cellular Renews Successful Partnership With The National Parks Conservation Association $5 Donation Given to NPCA for each Consumer Cellular Customer that Signs-up for Paperless Billing
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Press Release National Parks Group Asks Pennsylvania Court to Protect Upper Delaware National Scenic and Recreational River Friend of the Court brief filed in support of the Upper Delaware Council’s lawsuit to prevent the expansion of a quarry in Lakawaxen Township
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Blog Post See a Sneak Preview of Saturday’s ‘Rock the Park’ in Stunning Mojave National Preserve This weekend, I join adventurers Jack and Colton on-screen for a trip off the beaten path, among ancient art and millions of stars
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Press Release Clean Water for Parks and Communities Back on the Table Federal government concludes that recent rollbacks to clean water protections lead to “environmental degradation,” calls for a rewrite
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Press Release National Parks Conservation Association Announces New Director of Foundation Relations Pamela Wilson to serve as Director for Foundation Relations
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Press Release House Methane Move Hurts Parks Reversal of waste rule will worsen climate change at taxpayer’s expense.
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Press Release Parks Group Responds to Interior Secretary Staff Loyalty Questioning Pierno: “To serve…is to protect the very foundation on which our country was built."
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Press Release Paterson Great Falls National Historic Park in New Jersey Makes #397 Statement by NPCA Senior Northeast Regional Director Alexander Brash
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Press Release Badger-Two Medicine Protection Act to Safeguard Wild Nature, Tribal Lands Near Glacier National Park The Badger-Two Medicine Protection Act preserves both the natural heritage and the cultural significance of the area, which is home to many of the Blackfeet Nation’s origin stories
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Blog Post Congress: Stay On-Mission for Texas’ World-Class Park Throughout the world, countries vie every year to win the coveted World Heritage status for the most naturally and culturally significant sites they have to offer.
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Press Release Parks Group Calls on Department of Interior to Restore Protections for LGBTQ Employees The staff at the Department of Interior should continue to be as diverse as the places and stories they work to safeguard. And all staff deserve equal protection.
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Letter Best Available Retrofit Technology at the Cholla Power Plant On behalf of National Parks Conservation Association and Sierra Club, Earthjustice respectfully submits the following comments regarding the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality’s (ADEQ) proposed Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) “reassessment” for the Cholla Power Plant.
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Letter Opposition to Legislative Proposals at Cape Hatteras, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton NPCA urges Members of the House to Oppose H.R. 2954 when it comes to the House floor tomorrow. Specifically, NPCA opposes provisions to remove protections at Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Title V) and Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks (Title VII).
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Testimony Support for FY15 Appropriated Funding Statement of John Garder, Director, Budget and Appropriations, National Parks Conservation Association before the Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, April 11, 2014
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Amy Leinbach Marquis Amy Leinbach Marquis is former associate editor at National Parks magazine.
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Report Virginians for Healthy Air Newsletter Virginians for Healthy Air is a network of Virginia businesses, civic groups, and nonprofit organizations that share the vision of healthy air for the Commonwealth and for Virginia’s national parks, including Shenandoah.
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Cassie Gogreve Cassie Gogreve a native Angeleno and urban planner, she enjoys any opportunity to get outside and catch a glimpse of the iconic San Gabriel Mountains.
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Jennifer Ly Jennifer Ly's environmental consciousness was cultivated at a young age while spending time in the backyard with her Dad. She grew up in a Cantonese-speaking home in El Monte, where her parents settled after coming to the United States from Vietnam.
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Matt Brass MATT BRASS resides in Knoxville, Tennessee, with his wife, Larisa, and their seven children. He works as a creative director for an ad agency specializing in sustainability and the environment.
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Liliana Griego Liliana Griego is passionate about connecting people to their natural environment, especially their local one. While growing up in Los Angeles, she never realized that she was living in a biodiversity hotspot. It wasn’t until she left Los Angeles, to study other ecosystems, that she began to appreciate the land she grew up on.
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