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• Resource National Parks Affected by 9B Rules | By Nicholas Lund These 40 parks have active oil and gas wells or are at risk of future oil and gas development within their boundaries.
• Infographic More Wolves at Isle Royale National Park NPCA has long advocated to bring new wolves to the national park to protect the long-term survival of this iconic species.
• Resource Pipelines and National Parks Congress is trying to make it easier to build gas pipelines through national parks.
• Fact Sheet Protecting America's Great Waters The National Parks Conservation Association recognizes that the health of our national parks is directly linked to the health of the waters that surround and flow through them. As part of its landscape conservation strategic priority, NPCA actively works in the Chesapeake Bay, Colorado River, Everglades, Galveston Bay, Great Lakes, and New York/New Jersey Harbor and Hudson Estuary to conserve and restore these waterways for the benefit of current and future national parks.
• Report NPCA 2017 Annual Report At a time when so much divides us, our national parks are a cause that every American can rally around. They are our common ground, and right now our parks need us as much as we need them.
• Press Release Victory for Grand Canyon: Forest Service Rejects Project That Would Spell Disaster Mar 2016 Agency denies Stilo Development Group’s plan to build road, infrastructure through Kaibab National Forest.
• Blog Post Yosemite in Autumn: An Insider’s View Nov 2013 | By Ben Sander Millions of people visit Yosemite each year. What makes for a truly exceptional trip? One NPCA staffer finds out.
• Press Release EPA Fails to Protect Clean Air, Exempts Navajo Generating Station Coal Plant from Safeguards Jul 2014 Clean Air Advocates Vow Fight After Decision Allowing Controversial Coal Plant to Keep Polluting for Decades
• Policy Update Position on S. 500, S. 1081 & Amendments Nov 2019 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources ahead of a hearing scheduled for November 19, 2019.
• Press Release Recovery Planning Proposed for North Cascades Grizzly Bears Aug 2014 Washingtonians, conservation groups say now is the time to save a threatened species
• Press Release $60 Million Transportation Grant for Tamiami Trail to Advance Everglades Restoration Jun 2019 Completion of the Tamiami Trail project will be a tremendous victory for Everglades restoration and the end-result of 30 years of hard work by local communities and state and federal leaders
• Magazine Article The Lion Catcher Spring 2018 | By Emily Mount Biologist Eric York lived to help wild carnivores, but he didn’t get a chance to finish his life’s work.
• Policy Update Position on Fiscal Year 2017 Omnibus Appropriations May 2017 NPCA sent the following position to members of Congress after the passage of the H.R. 244 on May 4, 2017.
• Magazine Article The Center Winter 2014 | By Scott Kirkwood Five weeks in the North Cascades with a sketchbook, a camera and a journal.
• Policy Update Position on Amendments to H.R. 3055, FY20 Appropriations Minibus Oct 2019 NPCA submitted the following positions to the Senate ahead of anticipated floor votes the week on October 28, 2019.
• Magazine Article Breathe It In Summer 2011 | By Scott Kirkwood A blockbuster settlement involving the Tennessee Valley Authority, NPCA, EPA, and others guarantees clear skies in the Great Smokies’ future.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 1992, H.R. 3008, H.R. 4731, and H.R. 5005 Feb 2018 NPCA submitted the following positions to the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands ahead of a hearing scheduled for February 28, 2018.
• Policy Update Position on S.3073, Interior Appropriations & Amendments Jul 2018 NPCA submitted the following position to the U.S. Senate ahead of expected floor debate and votes the week of July 23, 2018.
• Press Release Clean Air Advocates Applaud EPA's Decision in North Dakota to Require Proven, Cost-Effective Systems for Reducing Pollution at Antiquated Coal-Fired Plants Sep 2011 New systems at the Leland Olds and MR Young plants will significantly lessen the nearly $500 million burden in air pollution regional health care costs each year
• Press Release Administration Rolls Back Methane Waste Protections Feb 2018 Weakened methane waste rule puts public health, lands at risk.
• Press Release Polling Shows 80% Support for Restoring North Cascades Grizzly Bears Jun 2016 Polling data compliments a new partnership of conservation, business and other groups that support the return of a missing Northwest icon.
• Policy Update Comments on the Energy Policy Modernization Act Jul 2015 NPCA’s positions on several potential amendments to and provisions in the Energy Policy Modernization Act, as submitted to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
• Magazine Article Sacred Water Spring 2012 | By Kevin Grange How an unlikely alliance of conservationists, ranchers, business owners, and American Indians is fighting to save the Great Basin.
• Press Release Conservation Advocates Challenge EPA's Texas Haze Plan in Court Dec 2017 Groups challenge EPA’s Regional Haze Pollution Cleanup Plan in Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
• Magazine Article On the Right Path Fall 2011 | By Scott Kirkwood Off-road vehicles have scarred the landscape of Wrangell St. Elias for years, but that’s about to change.
• Blog Post Sharing the 'Real' Civil War Jul 2013 | By Alan Spears Our collective fascination with the Civil War often brushes past the complex underlying issues of race, slavery, and politics to focus exclusively on bullets, bayonets, and tactics—but we should take every effort to broaden our concepts about what constitutes “real” Civil War history and what doesn’t.
• Policy Update Position on Funding the Border Wall Feb 2018 NPCA submitted the following position to the Senate ahead of votes scheduled for February 15, 2018.
• Press Release Diverse Interests Challenge Federal Licensing of FPL's Proposed New Turkey Point Nuclear Reactors Aug 2010 Utility's plan poses great risks to public, environment and economy
• Blog Post Bridge over Troubled Water May 2016 | By Cara Capp Restoring America’s Everglades to solve Florida’s water crisis
• Policy Update Position on Amendments to Senate Budget Resolution Mar 2015 NPCA submitted the following positions on amendments to the budget resolution under consideration by the Senate in March 2015.
• Magazine Article A Thousand Miles in a Hundred Days Summer 2012 | By Amy Leinbach Marquis Photographer Carlton Ward, Jr., leads a team of explorers on an ambitious, self-propelled journey through the Everglades and beyond.
• Blog Post Death Valley: This Land of Extremes Now Recognized for Its World-Class Night Skies Feb 2013 | By David Lamfrom Death Valley isn’t just the hottest place on Earth. It was also just recognized as one of the darkest.
• Press Release Montana Governor Offers Historic Gift of More Than 300,000 Acres for Yellowstone Bison Dec 2015 Today, Montana Governor Steve Bullock proposed more #RoomToRoam for Yellowstone bison with a call to open more than 300,000 acres of year-round, conflict-free habitat.
• Press Release Restore the Grizzly Bear to the North Cascades Jan 2017 The time to restore grizzly bears in the North Cascades Ecosystem is now.
• Magazine Article Words and Stones Summer 2016 | By Dorian Fox On the trail with Acadia’s new poet laureate.

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