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Park Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park This park protects a 12-mile stretch of the Gunnison River as it flows through an exceptionally deep and narrow gorge. The steep canyon walls keep out much of the sunlight, giving it a dark appearance and inspiring the "Black Canyon" name. Visitors can enjoy trout fishing and challenging paddling conditions on the river; rock climbers can also choose from 145 remote and challenging climbs throughout the park.
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Park Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park Experience the living landscape of the “Birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution” in the Blackstone River Valley. The Blackstone River helped fuel America’s drive towards industrialization by running the nation’s first water-powered cotton mill. As a result, mill villages soon sprang up from the headwaters in Worcester, Massachusetts, to Narragansett Bay in Providence, Rhode Island. The 46-mile waterway, once called "the hardest-working river in America," continues to connect the communities in this celebrated national heritage corridor.
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Report Strategies to Increase National Park Funding Funding and national park experts have drafted 16 papers outlining strategies that could be employed to increase non-appropriated funding for the national parks.
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Report National Park Visitor Spending Effects This economic effects analysis measures how NPS visitor spending cycles through local economies, generating business sales and supporting jobs and income.
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Press Release Administration Launches Latest Attack on Endangered National Park Wildlife The rule essentially hands the keys to critical habitat protection for America’s threatened and endangered species over to industry.
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Magazine Article Your Park Stories These lands are your lands; these tales are your tales.
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Blog Post Restoring Land to Protect Joshua Tree National Park What are the ingredients for a successful restoration event?
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Press Release Legal Settlement Allows National Park Marine Wilderness Restoration to Begin in Point Reyes National Seashore Settlement agreement protects the West Coast’s first marine wilderness at Drakes Estero
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Press Release Parks Group Opposes Efforts to Dismantle Antiquities Act Proposed bills would diminish the President’s authority to protect public lands
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Blog Post View a 'Ring of Fire' from National Parks This Sunday Annular eclipse to brighten night-sky viewing in the West this weekend
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Blog Post Could Space Exploration Harm National Parks? Two proposed new spaceport sites are alarmingly close to national seashores in Florida and Georgia. If approved, rocket launches from these sites could cause serious harm to protected lands.
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Blog Post New National Park Site Showcases Women's Fight for Right to Vote The Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument preserves decades of passionate work in the struggle for suffrage and gender equality. Here's a peek at some of this colorful history.
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Blog Post The Country’s Smallest National Park Site A memorial in downtown Philadelphia preserves epic tales of war and freedom in just 0.02 acres of space.
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Blog Post The National Park Site That Was Almost Blown Up It was an explosion that created Sunset Crater in northern Arizona. Another proposed explosion almost led to its demise.
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Park Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument In the 1960s, Birmingham, Alabama, was one of the most segregated places in the United States. In 1963, civil rights leaders Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organized nonviolent protests in the city to take a stand against race-based injustice. Day after day, hundreds of marchers took to the streets, including hundreds of school-aged youth. These nonviolent protesters suffered brutal mistreatment at the hands of police and other city officials, gaining national attention and eventually winning major concessions in the fight for equal rights.
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Blog Post Knope Says Yup Washington, DC – The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) congratulates Leslie Knope on her decision to join the National Park Service as Midwest Regional Director. The newly created position will keep Leslie in her hometown of Pawnee, Indiana.
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Blog Post Urban Stargazing: See More of the Universe at Night Longer nights and clearer skies during winter make it an ideal season for stargazing, and fortunately, some national parks offer dark skies near major urban areas.
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Blog Post Improving America’s Water Infrastructure A quick guide to the Water Resources Development Act and why it matters for national parks.
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Blog Post Beautiful Nature, an Hour from Chicago We often talk about “connecting with nature” and how important it is for urban residents to have access to green space. It improves our physical health, reduces our stress, and even improves our mood to have a world-class park near home.
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Press Release Bikes on South Shore Train Line One Step Closer to Becoming a Reality Statement by LeAaron Foley, Midwest Senior Outreach Coordinator, National Parks Conservation Association
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Blog Post Protecting Our Great Waters More than two-thirds of all national park units are located in Great Waters watersheds, and the ways we use the land around national parks impacts the quality and quantity of water in national parks.
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Magazine Article Lest We Forget One man's 30-year mission to honor the lives of more than 260 Park Service employees and volunteers who died while working in the parks.
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Magazine Article The Trouble With Bats A decade after the emergence of white-nose syndrome, bats in national parks and around the country continue to die. Can researchers save them before it's too late?
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Press Release Subaru of America, NPCA Take Home Silver Halo Award for Best Sustainability Initiative Partnership recognized for ongoing commitment to reduce landfill waste from America’s National Parks
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Policy Update Position on S. 599, S. 1644, S. 1993, S. 2015, S. 2604, S. 2870, S. 2889, S. 2831, S. 3176, S. 3827 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources National Parks Subcommittee ahead of a hearing scheduled for August 15, 2018.
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Blog Post Wolves under Fire in Wyoming This month has been a sad one for Wyoming’s wolves. On October 1, the federal government removed wolves from the protection of the Endangered Species Act, allowing the state to permit hunting of these animals, despite glaring deficiencies in Wyoming’s wolf management plan. Even worse, the state included national park lands (namely, the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway and Grand Teton National Park) in a designated hunting area. Although no wolves will be hunted this year in national parks, the inclusion of park lands within a state hunting zone sets the stage for a future challenge to the Park Service’s authority over wildlife.
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Blog Post 9 Wildlife Success Stories National parks provide critical habitat for a variety of animals—in some cases, they are the only places that threatened or endangered species have left to call home. If those species disappear from a part of the country, parks can play an important role in bringing them back. Here are nine animals that have been reintroduced to their native habitats in national parks.
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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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Blog Post Overcoming Barriers in the Southwest Will future generations love national parks as much as we do? It’s a question that is as old as the parks themselves, and one that will be asked as long as parks exist. How do we make sure future Americans care about our parks? How do we do it when the face of America is changing?
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Blog Post 7 Facts About Bats in Honor of National Bat Week October 24 through 31 is a special time to celebrate the small but mighty mammals among us: bats! Here are a few facts about these important yet misunderstood creatures and their history in our national parks
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Blog Post 7 Places Worth Saving By protecting the areas surrounding national parks, the U.S. can build resilient landscapes that prevent the worst effects of climate change and species loss.
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Blog Post Precaution, Funding, and Science-Based Policy When a team of scientists and conservationists led by A. Starker Leopold wrote the Leopold Report in 1963, national park visitors were still feeding bears through their car windows, nocturnal wildlife still feasted on park garbage dumps, and park rangers still shot cougars and wolves to maximize the number of visitor-friendly elk and pronghorn.
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Blog Post The Final Frontier? Every U.S. state is home to a national park site, but this was not the case for most of the history of the National Park System. In 2013, President Obama used the Antiquities Act to create a national park site in the very last state to have one.
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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 Trivia Challenge: A Rare and Isolated Community Q: National parks help interpret diverse aspects of American culture, including unusual and exceptional stories from our country’s past. One unique park site preserves the history of a particularly rare and isolated kind of community: a Hansen’s disease settlement (commonly known as a leper colony). Can you name this park where former patients still live today?
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Park Blue Ridge Parkway Extending more than 450 miles between Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, the Blue Ridge Parkway is a trip through the history of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the people who have lived here for hundreds of years. This meandering road ties together diverse landscapes and conserves architecture, industry and cultural traditions associated with the mountain communities of southern Appalachia. Visitors can while away an afternoon listening to traditional music at the Blue Ridge Music Center, learn about the life of early settlers at Mabry Mill, or peruse traditional arts and crafts at the Folk Art Center, among other adventures.
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Video Design Thinking Process for Innovation A toolkit for leading creative conversations about park and program relevance.
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Report NPCA Milestones We thank you and reflect on the many milestones and victories made possible by the support of park philanthropists like you.
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Daniel Howe Daniel Howe is a writer, consultant and part-time professor in the Landscape Architecture Department in the College of Design at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. His many national park experiences include thru-hiking the 2,193-mile Appalachian Trail and cycling the length of the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway. Howe currently serves on the board of directors of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.
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Staff Rachel Kenigsberg In her role as Associate General Counsel, Rachel manages litigation on behalf of NPCA to support and protect national parks and also provides general legal counsel to the organization.
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Staff Larissa Walker As the Director of Outreach and Engagement, Larissa works to advance NPCA’s goal of engaging large and diverse communities to build a strong base of national park advocates. She works closely with NPCA’s regional staff across the country on advocacy efforts and oversees NPCA’s veterans program and the Next Generation Advisory Council.
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Park Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site Brice Crossroads National Battlefield commemorates a June 10, 1864 Civil War battle near Tupelo, Mississippi, that resulted in a Confederate victory for Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Learn more about the battle and the larger war through interpretive trails at the park and at nearby visitor facilities at the Natchez Trace Parkway and Tupelo National Battlefield.
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Letter Position on Colorado National Monument Draft Bill NPCA’s position on a proposed citizens draft bill to elevate the venerable Colorado National Monument in Grand Junction to national park status.
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Zachary Bolick Zachary Bolick works as a Partnership Director for the Student Conservation Association (SCA) out of their Anchorage, AK office.
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Staff Betsy Buffington Betsy Buffington, a longtime conservation partner and ally, is regional director of the Northern Rockies Regional Office, overseeing our work in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and Idaho.
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