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• Press Release 9th Circuit Appeals Court Rejects Drakes Bay Oyster Co. En Banc Rehearing Petition Jan 2014 Decision Affirms Interior Department's Wilderness Designation for Drakes Estero
• Blog Post Feeling the Heat Feb 2014 | By Katherine DeGroff The American pika is highly sensitive to rising temperatures, and climate change threatens its very survival. Park researchers in the West are studying the effects warming is having on this vulnerable park species.
• Press Release Congress Debates Reopening National Parks Across the Country Oct 2013 Statement by Theresa Pierno, Acting President, National Parks Conservation Association
• Press Release National Parks Group Says Funding Bill Begins to Set a Trajectory for Restored Funding by 2016 Centennial Jan 2014 Next steps key to national parks recovering from years of damaging cuts
• Press Release Federal Court Declares Bush-Era Rule that Removed Protections against Mountaintop Removal Mining Invalid Feb 2014 Ruling ends regulation that removed essential protections for Appalachian waterways against mountaintop removal and surface coal mining
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 3668, the SHARE Act Sep 2017 NPCA submitted the following position to the House Natural Resources Committee ahead of a markup scheduled for September 13, 2017.
• Press Release Conservation Groups Call on Interior Secretary to Protect Clean Air in Rocky Mountain National Park Mar 2010 Groups Take Aim at Hazy Skies, Inadequate State Rules; Call for Better Pollution Controls for Coal-Burning Power Plants
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 1373, H.R. 2181 & H.R. 3405 Jul 2019 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the House Committee on Natural Resources ahead of a markup scheduled for July 17, 2019.
• Magazine Article Against All Odds Fall 2016 | By Kevin Grange The epic story of one of the National Park Service’s greatest rescues.
• Magazine Article Rebuilding the Past Fall 2012 | By Kate Siber The National Park Service is finding new ways to preserve historic buildings that would otherwise crumble into disrepair.
• Magazine Article Desert Storm Summer 2013 | By Amy Leinbach Marquis Fort Bowie stood at the center of America's most brutal Indian Wars.
• Press Release New Everglades Management Plan Means Improved Visitor Experiences and More Access to the Park Aug 2015 After more than a decade of research, planning, and an extensive public comment process, the National Park Service released their final General Management Plan for Everglades National Park.
• Blog Post César E. Chávez National Monument an Excellent First Step Toward Honoring the Influential Labor Leader Oct 2012 | By Ron Sundergill NPCA commends President Barack Obama for announcing on Monday that he will designate a César E. Chávez National Monument in Keene, California, as the 398th site in the National Park System—the first national park unit to recognize the work of a contemporary Latino American. This designation is an excellent first step toward honoring Chávez and a fitting way to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.
• Magazine Article Hidden Names, Hidden Stories Winter 2021 | By Michael Ray Taylor A journey to the depths of Mammoth Cave to record signatures left by Civil War soldiers.
• Blog Post Love Is in the Parks Feb 2020 | By Katherine DeGroff 5 NPCA staff members share their national park love stories.
• Magazine Article A New View Spring 2020 | By Laura Allen Has the long-troubled relationship between Grand Canyon National Park and local indigenous people entered a more harmonious era?
• Magazine Article Surround Sound Summer 2016 | By Nicolas Brulliard The Acoustic Atlas’ trove of recordings includes grizzly cubs purring, ice freezing and thousands of other elusive sounds.
• Press Release National Park Group Calls Joshua Tree Expansion Study a Step Forward but with Lingering Development Concerns Jul 2015 Statement by Seth Shteir, Senior Desert Field Representative for the National Parks Conservation Association
• Blog Post Budget Deal Boosts Funding but Hurts Border Parks Dec 2019 Last month, Congress increased funding for the National Park Service and other agencies that manage public lands, among other positive provisions in the federal budget. But lawmakers also included border wall funding measures that will continue putting sites such as Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument at risk.
• Press Release Parks Group Supports Protecting Mount Rushmore From Further Fireworks Damage Oct 2021 Why would you risk setting a place like this on fire during the height of the annual summer drought? The state of South Dakota’s fireworks proposal carries significant dangers to park visitors and staff.
• Press Release Historic World War II Hangars to be Restored at Gateway National Recreation Area Nov 2012 Statement by Alexander Brash, Northeast Senior Regional Director for the National Parks Conservation Association
• Magazine Article Claiming the Rock Summer 2016 | By Nicolas Brulliard The 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island, from 1969 to 1971, marked a turning point in American Indian activism.
• Blog Post 5 Reasons the EPA’s New ‘Roadmap’ Could Harm Parks Oct 2018 | By Stephanie Kodish Rolling back clean air protections would be bad for human health and the environment.
• Magazine Article Flight Plan Fall 2014 | By Amy Leinbach Marquis National parks temporarily declared “no-fly zones” for drones.
• Press Release BLM Hits Pause on Leasing Nearly 1 Million Acres for Oil and Gas Development Oct 2018 Responding to court orders, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) hit the pause button on lease sales for nearly one million acres of public lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
• Magazine Article A Road Less Traveled Fall 2011 | By Amy Leinbach Marquis Students reconnect with African-American history on an 1,800-mile journey along the Underground Railroad.
• Press Release Former National Park Superintendents Call for Waterton-Glacier Expansion, Watershed Protections Dec 2010 As Congress considers lands bill, veteran park leadership makes conservation appeal
• Press Release Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Eagle Mountain Landfill Case, Helps Protect Joshua Tree National Park Mar 2011 Refusal to hear appeal from Kaiser Ventures LLC is a major win for Joshua Tree National Park
• Press Release US Groups Applaud Alberta Decision to Protect Crown of the Continent Sep 2015 Conservation groups commend decision by Alberta government to protect Castle Wildland just north of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.
• Policy Update Position on the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act of 2021 May 2021 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works ahead of a hearing scheduled for May 26, 2021.

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