Search results for “Boston National Historical Park”
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Park Joshua Tree National Park This iconic park preserves portions of two spectacular desert ecosystems. The Colorado Desert in the eastern portion of the park features natural gardens of creosote bush, ocotillo and cholla cactus. The higher, slightly cooler Mojave Desert offers dazzling vistas of Joshua trees and yucca. The vast park also contains spectacularly sculpted formations of a type of rock known as monzogranite and is a mecca for rock climbers around the world.
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Park Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park This park presents a thorough portrait of the strong-willed Texan who served in both houses of Congress before leading the country as president. This park encompasses the Hill Country home site that has been in the Johnson family since the 1860s as well as the ranch where the president is buried. Learn about President Johnson’s controversial role in escalating the Vietnam War and his celebrated “Great Society” legislation which expanded civil rights protections, national health care, and environmental laws. See his childhood bed, his clothes, his collection of rare automobiles, the one-room school he attended, and a wealth of other historic items.
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Park Mammoth Cave National Park Explore Mammoth Cave National Park, the longest cave system on Earth, featuring the richest known habitat for cave wildlife in the world.
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Park Manassas National Battlefield Park Spectators and reporters competed for a good view of the first major battle between Union and Confederate soldiers at Manassas in July of 1861. Before the battle, most Americans thought the war would be one short skirmish; the deaths of 900 soldiers shocked the nation into realizing otherwise. Soldiers fought a second battle over the same fields at Manassas a year later that helped clear the way for Lee’s first invasion of the North. Today, visitors can take walking tours through the primary battlegrounds. There is also a 13-mile, self-guided driving tour of that stops at various locations, including Stone House Tavern, a structure that was used as a Union field hospital.
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Park Gateway Arch National Park At 630 feet high and 630 feet wide, St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch is the tallest arch in the world and the tallest monument in the Western Hemisphere.
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Fact Sheet National Park Service Infrastructure Repair Backlog As the National Park Service enters its second century, the new administration and Congress have an extraordinary opportunity to provide needed and overdue resources to address the nearly $12 billion infrastructure repair backlog.
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Fact Sheet Voyageurs National Park at Risk from Sulfide Mining Recent mining proposals could pose a significant threat to this watershed. Even small amounts of contamination could harm the park's fish and wildlife.
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Staff Joshua Jenkins Joshua Jenkins is coming from our NPCA Northwest office to join the Southeast team and will be based in Birmingham, working in Alabama and Mississippi. He’ll be supporting new park campaigns and heritage areas, building deeper connections focusing on the links between parks and community needs/desires.
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Blog Post Seeing Stars A former national park ranger shares how staff and partners at Timpanogos Cave are bringing the dark-sky experience to thousands of people in the most populous part of Utah.
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Blog Post Winter Rains Bring Blooms to Organ Pipe Once dubbed the most dangerous park in the country, these wild Arizona lands are fully reopened, noticeably restored and full of botanic wonders.
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Blog Post The DeChristopher Effect After years of work by passionate advocates, a new approach to oil and gas leasing could produce better decisions on energy development and how it affects the air, water, noise, and views at national parks.
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Press Release Volunteers Celebrate Pullman National Monument With Inaugural Volunteer Day of Service Event activities are part of national Find Your Voice initiative to inspire and empower new generation of national park advocates
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Press Release New Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Protecting Areas Within Maine Woods Zogby poll finds Maine voters support partnerships for preserving areas for parks and timber land
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Press Release President Obama Designates Three National Monuments in the California Desert Protecting spectacular and unique desert lands, President Obama designated three new national monuments today: Mojave Trails, Sand to Snow, and our country's 410th national park site, Castle Mountains National Monument.
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Magazine Article Have Phone, Will Travel Introducing a paperless travel guide to the national parks.
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Magazine Article Tourist Time Capsule Before selfies were in and big hair was out, Roger Minick traveled the country capturing photos of visitors at national parks.
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Blog Post A Different Kind of Field Work Farmers help preserve the historic feel at parks by keeping traditional crops on their landscapes.
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Blog Post Top 10 Reasons We Oppose Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator Someone with a track record of undermining national parks should not lead this key environmental agency
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Magazine Article 401 And Done Visiting all 401 national park sites was Chris Calvert’s longtime dream—and then it became a reality.
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Blog Post Best Bet for Families Traveling the American West: Petrified Forest Traveling with kids to the Grand Canyon and other classic stops in the American West can be an exercise in expensive hotels, bus shuttles, huge crowds, and less-than-child-friendly trails. Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona offers a surprising alternative.
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Policy Update Position on S.508, S. 1863, S. 2340, S. 2827, S. 2924, S. 3121, and S. 3119 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks ahead of a legislative hearing scheduled for March 4th, 2020.
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Magazine Article A People’s Historian Talking about the past and the future with the Park Service’s new chief historian.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 3458 & H.R. 3879 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands ahead of a hearing scheduled for September 19, 2019.
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Blog Post Why We Lobby Park advocates take to the Hill
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Blog Post Youth Push for Pullman on Capitol Hill A diverse group of advocates helps lobby for Chicago's first national park site.
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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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Press Release Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument Will Preserve Pivotal Civil Rights History Newly designated national park site represents a critical chapter in America’s civil rights story
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Magazine Article Flight Plan National parks temporarily declared “no-fly zones” for drones.
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Blog Post Where Nomadland Meets Public Land The Oscar-winning best picture of 2020 shows what some national park travelers give up to live the life so many of us dream about.
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Blog Post Blitzed with Butterflies A day of citizen science put this park lover face-to-face with some of the prettiest insects in the Rockies.
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Press Release Battlefield Coalition Unveils Findings of Year-long 'Wilderness Gateway Study' Cooperative effort provides framework for balancing preservation, development around national parks
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Magazine Article Songs of the Wild Celebrating national parks with new music in the great outdoors.
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Blog Post NPCA Acting President Makes Statement on Government Shutdown NPCA Acting President Theresa Pierno made a statement earlier today regarding the government shutdown and its effects on our national parks. A video of this statement is now available below.
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Blog Post Unfit to Serve: Why NPCA Opposes Andrew Wheeler as EPA Administrator We need an EPA administrator who will fulfill the agency's mission to protect the environment — not one who actively undermines our public health and the health of our national parks.
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Press Release Supreme Court Hears Landmark Case on Appalachian Trail Protections The National Parks Conservation Association stands against the influx of irresponsible development on our public lands.
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Press Release New Agreement Requires Minnesota's Dirtiest Power Plant to Curb Pollution Clean air advocates say more steps are necessary to reduce Xcel Energy's Sherco coal plant emissions that harm community health, national parks, wilderness
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Spotlight Akiima Price's Story Organizer Akiima Price knows the realities of connecting underserved communities of color to DC’s urban parks.
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Spotlight Chris Liu’s Story Conservationist Chris Liu looks to the future – his own and for national parks in the Pacific Northwest.
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Video Thank you Thank you for supporting NPCA and your national parks.
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Melanie McDowell Melanie joined NPCA in March 2015 and is the Outreach and Engagement Manager for the Mid-Atlantic Region. She runs outreach and engagement programming to empower diverse national park advocates throughout the region.
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Evan Turk Evan is an award-winning illustrator, author and animator, who lives in Riverside, California, with his husband and two cats. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and NPR. His recently published children’s books include “The People’s Painter,” “A Thousand Glass Flowers” and “You Are Home: An Ode to the National Parks.”
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Video Telling America's Story at Pullman National Monument America’s stories are just as important as its natural wonders. Pullman National Monument, Chicago’s first national park, tells the story of American opportunity. Watch the video!
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Resource NPCA’s Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Statement of Intentions Our vision for incorporating these principles into our work.
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Staff Timothy Leonard Timothy is program manager of NPCA’s northeast outreach and engagement initiatives.
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Staff Robin Martin McKenna Robin Martin McKenna joined NPCA in 2000 and is currently Chief Operating Officer. Previously Robin was Vice President of Regional Operations, overseeing NPCA’s field program for two years and served as Deputy for the department for eight years prior to that.
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