Search results for “Golden Spike National Historical Park”
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Report Win-Win: The Endangered Species Act and Our National Parks Our national parks are home to awe-inspiring landscapes and iconic wildlife, including habitat for more than 600 threatened and endangered species protected by the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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Resource How To Write a Letter to the Editor Writing a letter to the editor of a newspaper is a powerful way to voice your concerns about issues affecting national parks. It doesn't need to be as scary as it sounds. Just follow these simple steps to share your concerns about national parks.
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Video What Moves Us Why are we drawn to our national parks? What inspires us to explore them—and to return to our favorites again and again? This video reminds us all why we yearn for the paths through our most cherished places... and can't help but to put one foot in front of the other.
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Resource Growler Tracker Have you heard the Growlers while visiting Olympic National Park? Let us know about it using our Growler Tracker tool.
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Fact Sheet Gates of the Arctic: No Place for a Mining Road The proposed Ambler Mining Road threatens wilderness recreation, rural lifestyles and the fragile ecosystem of our country’s premier wilderness park.
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Magazine Article At Rest in Yellowstone A husband scatters his wife’s ashes in five wild landscapes they knew and loved, bringing the journey to an end in the Lamar Valley.
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Blog Post A Rare Look at Rose Atoll New IMAX film 'Hidden Pacific' documents remote underwater wonders, including 'one of the last pristine wildernesses on Earth,' and shows the importance of protecting our wild marine national monuments.
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Magazine Article Soaking It All In The woods are lovely, dark and deep — perfect for forest bathers searching for a little peace of mind.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 3763, the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act NPCA is encouraged by the funding increases for the Federal Lands Transportation Program and Federal Lands Access Program (FLAP) in the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act, marked up by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on October 22, 2015.
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Press Release Groups Urge Secretary Zinke to Include Public in Public Land Policies Concern that without any public input, Interior will undo smart land management guidance that took years to develop.
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Press Release Permanent Uranium Ban for the Grand Canyon Introduced in the Senate Senate legislation would permanently ban new uranium mining on nearly one million acres within and near the Grand Canyon.
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Blog Post Power Line Proposal Threatening Historic Jamestown Based on Flawed Projections According to a new report commissioned by NPCA, Dominion Power's harmful plan to build 17 giant towers across the James River is not only detrimental to irreplaceable historic resources—it's also unnecessary.
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Magazine Article A Whaling Tale A quarter-mile-long painting from a bygone era makes its 21st century debut.
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Blog Post How Colorado Stayed a Massive Rollback in Water Protections and What It Could Mean for the Rest of the Country The Trump administration overturned the Clean Water Rule in June, but legal action — or congressional intervention — could restore these critical protections.
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Press Release At Annual Conference, Everglades Coalition Offers Solutions to Address Florida’s Water Crisis Coalition’s roadmap provides four-year guide for funding needs and timely Everglades restoration projects to complete
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Magazine Article A Billion-Dollar Driveway A life-long resident of Alaska worries a road would destroy the wilderness he knows and loves.
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Magazine Article The Loneliest Land 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.
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Blog Post Does This Outfit Match My Canoe? Can a city girl survive a four-day wilderness adventure paddling through some of the Everglades' most remote waters? One young woman leaves her makeup bag behind and gives it her best try.
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Blog Post Photographing the World's Rarest Fish One researcher gives us a glimpse behind his underwater camera
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Policy Update Position on Emmer Discussion Draft NPCA submitted the following position to the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources on ahead of a hearing scheduled for July 27, 2017.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 3115, Superior National Forest Land Exchange Act NPCA submitted the following position to the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands ahead of a legislative hearing scheduled for July 14, 2017.
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Magazine Article Swimming with Dinosaurs Atlantic sturgeon are making a surprising comeback in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Magazine Article A Ladder to the Top Thirty years ago, Vern Tejas overcame extreme cold and other dangers to become the first person to survive a winter solo ascent of Denali.
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Press Release Navajo Nation Tribal Council Should Vote No to Escalade Proposal We Have Opportunity to Protect Grand Canyon from Incompatible Development
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Blog Post Fishy Business Giant invasive fish are injuring boaters in the Midwest? Crazy but true. A new law will help corral these intruders.
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Magazine Article Nature’s Night Lights After the sun sets, the bioluminescent show on Tomales Bay begins.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 5859, the Trillion Trees Act NPCA, along with partners, submitted the following position to members of the House Committee on Natural Resources ahead of a hearing scheduled for February 26, 2020.
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Magazine Article Seeing Green Decades of conservation efforts pay off for the endangered green sea turtle.
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Magazine Article Homecoming Exactly 40 years after completing the Appalachian Trail, nine hikers reunited in Maine. How had walking those 2,193 miles changed the course of their lives?
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Blog Post Don’t Just See the Movie! Honor Lincoln’s memory by helping to preserve more of Gettysburg
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Policy Update Position on the American Public Lands and Waters Climate Solution Act NPCA, along with partners, sent the following letter to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
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Blog Post Three New National Monuments in the California Desert? Senator Dianne Feinstein has proposed three new national monuments in the California desert that would preserve this spectacular region’s natural and cultural legacy for future generations. Urge President Obama to use the Antiquities Act to give these storied landscapes the protection they deserve!
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Blog Post How a Group of Silent Women Won a Battle with President Wilson a Century Ago The first organization to picket the White House launched a hard-fought campaign to win a major victory for women’s rights.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 2817, National Historic Preservation Amendments Act NPCA submitted the following position on legislation being considered by the House Natural Resources Committee during a markup on July 12th and 13th.
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Blog Post 'How Did They Let This Happen?' On the three-year anniversary of the Gulf oil spill, I hope my students remember the advice I gave them.
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