Search results for “Death Valley National Park”
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Park Redwood National & State Parks Redwood National and State Parks protect a primeval landscape where the world’s tallest living organisms, towering coast redwoods, thrive. Visitors can feel small as they stroll in the shadows of these enormous trees and explore rocky undeveloped beaches, fern studded canyons, open prairie, oak woodlands, and fog-filled river valleys. These diverse habitats support myriad wildlife and plants, including several rare species.
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Park Petrified Forest National Park Petrified Forest is best known for its ancient trees that have crystallized over 225 million years into rainbow colors. The park also features fossils from huge 18-foot crocodile-like creatures known as Phytosaurs, as well as remnants from 13,000 years of human history, including the remains of villages, tools, and grinding stones. A 28-mile road runs through the park, offering a number of short hiking trails into the diverse landscape of wild grasslands and Painted Desert vistas and colorful badlands.
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Park Rosie The Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park This national historical park honors the estimated 18 million women who joined defense and support industries during World War II. It also features the SS Red Oak Victory Ship—the last of the 747 ships launched at Richmond, California, during World War II. The Rosie the Riveter Memorial began as a public art project in the 1990s and is sculpted to resemble the form of a liberty ship. The structure showcases photos and quotes from real-life “Rosies,” and a walkway features an inscribed timeline commemorating events from the American home front during the war.
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Report Unnatural Disaster: Global Warming and Our National Parks Impacts of global warming already are being documented in our national parks, and the challenges grow daily. This is a crisis of our own creation that will not go away on its own. It will require decisive action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through conservation and development of carbon-free power sources. There is growing scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions will need to fall by at least 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 to avoid some of the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
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Report Vanishing Night Skies: The Effects of Light Pollution on the National Park System What compares to the inspiration of lying under a canopy of stars, with the Milky Way splashed across the evening sky? Like diamonds on black velvet, the stars dazzle the senses, touch the spirit, humble the individual, and incite a sense of curiosity and extraordinary wonder.
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Park Point Reyes National Seashore This seashore, established in 1962, is the only national seashore on the West Coast. It features windswept beaches, coastal cliffs and headlands, marine terraces, coastal uplands, salt marshes, estuaries, and coniferous forests. Located on the Point Reyes Peninsula, 40 miles northwest of San Francisco, the park encompasses about 71,070 acres, stretched across more than 80 miles of undeveloped coastline. Within the park, 32,730 acres are designated wilderness or potential wilderness, constituting one of the most accessible wilderness areas in the country, and the only marine wilderness (Drakes Estero) on the West Coast south of Alaska. The park harbors an astonishingly rich array of wildlife species, some found nowhere else on Earth.
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Park Padre Island National Seashore Travelers might not picture stunning beaches and undisturbed lagoons, marshlands, and coastal prairies when they think of Texas, but Padre Island National Seashore preserves the largest undeveloped barrier island in the world with a range of unspoiled natural features. The varied types of geography at the park make it an ideal stopover for a range of migratory birds on the Central Flyway seeking food and shelter, and the American Bird Conservancy has designated the park a Globally Important Bird Area. An estimated 380 different types of birds inhabit Padre Island over the course of a year—nearly half the total number of bird species in the entire country.
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Press Release BLM Spares Some Lands near Dinosaur National Monument from Development Oil, gas development on nearby lands could still impact national park.
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Press Release Stephanie Kodish Director & Counsel for the Clean Air Program On Today's Carbon Pollution Rule Statement By Stephanie Kodish, Clean Air Program Director, National Parks Conservation Association
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Blog Post National Pastimes Although the pandemic has changed our summer rituals, these 7 park-inspired ball teams still bring smiles to our faces and remind us of some of the traditions we miss.
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Magazine Article Gone But Not Forgotten Fossil Cycad National Monument was removed from the Park Service in 1957, but the story doesn’t end there.
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Blog Post Inspiring Teen Puts a Spotlight on a Pervasive Trash Problem National parks benefit from Georgia’s Plastic Pollution Awareness Day
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Blog Post 5 Takeaways from the Midterm Elections NPCA’s director of legislation and policy notes a few trends from last week’s elections that could affect national parks in 2019.
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Blog Post A Year of Victories We Can All Be Proud Of 2019 was NPCA's centennial year, and we are grateful for the thousands of advocates who stood with us throughout the year to win major park victories and care for the places we love.
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Magazine Article What Are Your Dangerous Ideas? At a Rhode Island national park site, visitors share their dangerous ideas.
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Blog Post Saving a Piece of History at Harpers Ferry Four historically significant acres at risk of becoming a mini-mart will now be preserved as part of the national park.
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Magazine Article Tune In, Bliss Out Drop into protected places around the world — or share your own recordings — at a new online archive, Sounds of Your Park.
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Blog Post Help Preserve the Birthplace of the Modern LGBT Movement Join NPCA in the campaign to preserve Stonewall, birthplace of the modern LGBT movement, as the first LGBT-themed national park site.
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Magazine Article The Lay of the Land Meet Frederick Law Olmsted, the man who created Central Park and defined landscape architecture.
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Blog Post 'What’s in the Water?' More Than You Might Expect More than 50% of national parks have impaired water. NPCA has 5 tips to protect this vital resource.
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Magazine Article Coast to Coast From Mississippi’s Gulf Coast beaches to Florida’s Atlantic shores, these national parks have more to offer than white sands and saltwater.
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Press Release Victory for the Appalachian Trail: Energy Companies Cancel Atlantic Coast Pipeline National park advocates joined communities along the trail in calling for an end to this risky, irresponsible energy project, and their voices made a difference.
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Press Release Misplaced Priorities: Interior Department Pushes New E-Bike Policy During Public Health Crisis The proposed regulation fails to consider potential impacts to park visitors and resources, all while not allowing for full public engagement in the decision-making process due to the ongoing public health crisis.
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Press Release President Preserves Iconic Canyon Country with Bears Ears National Monument Shares Landscape with Canyonlands National Park, Other Protected Areas
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Press Release Telling Our Stories: President Obama Designates Honouliuli National Monument in Hawai'i Statement by Ron Sundergill, Pacific Region Senior Director, National Parks Conservation Association
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Press Release New Report Urges EPA to Abandon Proposed Air Pollution Rule New policy would obstruct efforts to protect cherished national parks and wildernesses, and their surrounding communities from air pollution
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Blog Post Hope in the Wake of Tragedy When Sandy crashed ashore just a few months ago, it ravaged the cities, towns, and shorelines of New York and New Jersey and caused unprecedented damage to the region’s national parks.
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Spotlight Amy Robert's Story The Outdoor Industry Association’s Amy Roberts in Colorado has an insider’s view of recreation, her local national park and consumer activism.
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Blog Post New Federal Memo Underscores the Importance of Diverse and Welcoming Public Lands Diversity and inclusion are key to the future success of our national parks
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Blog Post An Overdue Dose of Wilderness Earlier this month, Congress passed the first bill designating a new wilderness area in five years—the longest lapse ever between such designations. The bill specifically protects 32,500 acres at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, a national park site in Michigan famous for its immense sand dunes and bluffs, as well as its beaches, forests, and inland lakes on the southeastern shore of Lake Michigan.
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Press Release National Trail and Conservation Groups Blast New DOI E-Bike Order Groups Fear Order Paves Way for Motorization of America’s National Trails, Parks and Public Lands
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 3681, H.R. 4236 and H.R. 4512 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the U.S. Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands ahead of a legislative markup scheduled for Feb. 27th, 2020.
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Press Release Pullman National Monument Plans for Future on Display During Metra Train Tour To celebrate Pullman National Monument’s official designation and the National Park Conservation Association’s 100th anniversary, visitors received a one of a kind tour by train.
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Press Release Pullman Community Rallies Around Public-Private Partnerships Plan for Pullman National Monument NPCA and AIA release blueprint for development and growth of Chicago's first national park
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Press Release Proposal to Allow Commercial Rocket Launches Threatens Cumberland Island National Seashore If this proposal moves forward, rockets would be launched over Cumberland Island National Seashore, putting park resources and visitors at risk.
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Press Release NPCA Statement on 2016 General Election Urges Congress, President-Elect To Protect Parks
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Magazine Article Rallying Cry A small army of preservationists is fighting to add Mill Springs Battlefield to the National Park System.
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Resource The Jamaica Bay Database Initiative The Jamaica Bay Database Initiative is a project undertaken by the National Parks Conservation Association Northeast Regional Office. The primary goal of the project is to facilitate science-based decision-making for Jamaica Bay, New York City, by making existing environmental data more easily accessible for the purpose of conservation.
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Video Join Us Our national parks preserve some of the most inspiring places and stories. These places belong to us all. They deserve to be celebrated and protected. It’s up to us to ensure that America’s favorite places have clean water, clear air and healthy wildlife.
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Report Pullman Transportation Plan As one of America’s newest national parks, Pullman National Monument is preparing for as many as 300,000 visitors by 2020. The Pullman Transportation Plan, produced with funding secured by NPCA, outlines ways to improve access to and within Pullman for visitors and community residents.
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