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• Report Growing Visitation in Utah’s National Parks Just over 14.4 million people from around the world visited Utah’s 13 national park units in 2016, a 21% increase from 2015 alone. People flock to these iconic landscapes to hike to breathtaking vistas, contemplate dark, starry night skies, and experience awe-inspiring sunsets over the parks’ famous sandstone spires and arches.
• Resource How to Host a Park Volunteer Event Hosting a park volunteer event is an empowering act that flexes your leadership skills, helps our parks and engages new people. Learn how with this step-by-step guide.
• Infographic Our Parks Badly Need Repairs Our national parks, from the Grand Canyon to Gettysburg, need billions of dollars in repairs. Congress and the president must work together to fix our parks and help the local and national economies they support.
• Report Climate Change and National Park Wildlife: Risk and Opportunity America’s national parks are showing the signs of climate change. From Yosemite’s forests in California to the Gulf Stream waters of the Florida coast, from the top of the Rocky Mountains to the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, these lands and the incredible diversity of life they support are all feeling the heat.
• Report Diamond in the Rough An Economic Analysis of the Proposed Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve
• Magazine Article A Speedy Comeback? Fall 2020 | By Ben Goldfarb Pronghorn have made their triumphant return to Death Valley. Now the question is: How far will they go?
• Policy Update Position on S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act Apr 2016 NPCA submitted the following positions on several potential amendments to and provisions in S. 2012, Energy Policy Modernization Act, ahead of consideration on the Senate floor.
• Magazine Article The Anniversary Gift Winter 2013 | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan As Civil War sites continue to mark 150 years since America's most important conflict, Harpers Ferry, Antietam, and Gettysburg tell old stories in a new light.
• Magazine Article High Country Rescue Winter 2017 | By Cameron Walker Fungus and beetles threaten to topple the remarkable whitebark pine. Can tree enthusiasts help the keystone species before it's too late?
• Magazine Article The End of a Radioactive Proposal Spring 2012 | By Scott Kirkwood Department of Interior Prohibits Uranium Mines Near Grand Canyon.
• Press Release California Grants Joshua Tree Temporary Protections Sep 2020 The California Fish and Game Commission unanimously approved temporary California Endangered Species Act (CESA) protections today for western Joshua trees. 
• Policy Update Testimony: Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Modernization Act Oct 2015 Written testimony by John Garder regarding the discussion draft of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Modernization Act for House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands hearing on October 28, 2015.
• Policy Update Position on Reauthorization of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act Jul 2019 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. 
• Policy Update Position on 2016 Energy Legislation Jun 2016 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the House of Representatives designated as conferees on energy legislation.
• Policy Update Position on FY20 Interior Appropriations Oct 2019 NPCA sent the following position to leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees ahead of negotiations on final FY20 funding bills.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 2584 & H.R. 5210 Mar 2018 NPCA submitted the following positions to the House Committee on Natural Resources Federal Lands Subcommittee ahead of a hearing scheduled for March 20, 2018.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 1865 and H.R. 1158, FY20 Appropriations Dec 2019 NPCA submitted the following letter to the Senate prior to an anticipated floor vote on December 19th, 2019. 
• Press Release Badger-Two Medicine: Too Sacred to Drill Nov 2015 US Interior Department moves to cancel Solenex lease in the Badger-Two Medicine
• Press Release Appeals Court Upholds Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Ban Dec 2017 Havasupai Tribe, Conservation Coalition Celebrate Key Win for Water, Wildlife, Sacred Lands
• Press Release Grand Canyon Uranium-mining Threats Still Loom A Year After Historic Mining Restrictions Jan 2013 Uranium-mine development could affect water and public land
• Press Release Court Upholds Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Ban Sep 2014 Havasupai Tribe, conservation coalition celebrate key win for protecting water, wildlife, and sacred lands
• Press Release Groups Urge Secretary Zinke to Include Public in Public Land Policies Apr 2017 Concern that without any public input, Interior will undo smart land management guidance that took years to develop.
• Magazine Article The Loneliest Land Spring 2015 | By Lisa Selin Davis In 1888, writer Mary Hunter Austin began exploring the desert. Her love of the blunt, burned land of little rain led to a book, a career, and an environmental legacy.
• Magazine Article Victorious! Spring 2019 21 conservation triumphs from the past 100 years.
• Blog Post Wild American Beauty: 10 Wilderness Areas to Explore Sep 2014 | By Jennifer Errick Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act by exploring some of America’s wildest places, from remote windswept tundras to cactus-dotted mountains to serene rock-strewn beaches. Several spots are surprisingly close to major cities.
• Policy Update Position on the Pebble Mine Project Oct 2019 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources & Environment ahead of a hearing scheduled for October 23, 2019.
• Blog Post 8 Easy Adventures for Hikers of All Fitness Levels Jun 2019 | By Zach Ragbourn, Jennifer Errick New independent film features a series of low-effort, high-reward hikes for finding joy in the outdoors.
• Magazine Article On A Ledge Fall 2013 | By Kate Siber Wolverines may soon be listed as a threatened species.
• Magazine Article A Chilly Refuge Summer 2021 | By Ben Goldfarb Rock glaciers, long neglected by science, may help creatures from pikas to stoneflies endure climate change.
• Blog Post 9 Civil War Battlefields You Helped Save Apr 2015 | By Nicholas Lund 150 years ago this month, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, leading to the end of the Civil War. The conflict cost more than 600,000 American lives and nearly split our nation in two.
• Magazine Article Pines in Peril Spring 2021 | By Ben Goldfarb Grand Teton’s lodgepole forests are exquisitely adapted to wildfire — but can they survive a changing climate? 
• Magazine Article Between a Bog and a Hard Place Winter 2014 | By Eric Wagner Biologists in Washington State are calculating the best way to save crucial habitat for the Cascades frog.
• Blog Post Nearby Nature: 10 Easy Getaways Aug 2021 | By Jennifer Errick Need more time outdoors? You might not have to travel as far as you think. 
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 974, H.R. 1452, and H.R. 2406 Oct 2015 NPCA submitted the following positions on legislation considered during the House Natural Resource Committee markup on October 7-8, 2015.
• Magazine Article The Aftermath Summer 2012 | By Mark Schrope Revisiting Gulf Islands National Seashore two years after the biggest offshore oil disaster ever.

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