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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).
• 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.
• Resource Growler Tracker Have you heard the Growlers while visiting Olympic National Park? Let us know about it using our Growler Tracker tool.
• Report NPCA 2018 Annual Report A Nation's Parks: A Nation's Story
• Fact Sheet Gates of the Arctic: No Place for a Mining Road | By Alex Johnson The proposed Ambler Mining Road threatens wilderness recreation, rural lifestyles and the fragile ecosystem of our country’s premier wilderness park.
• Policy Update Testimony: S. 468, Historic Route Preservation Act Jul 2017 NPCA, along with partners, submitted the following testimony to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining ahead of a hearing scheduled for July 26, 2017
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 3763, the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act Oct 2015 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.
• Blog Post Photographing the World's Rarest Fish Sep 2016 | By Lynn Davis One researcher gives us a glimpse behind his underwater camera
• Blog Post Does This Outfit Match My Canoe? May 2015 | By Ziggy Pastor 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.
• Blog Post The Land Beyond Hate May 2016 | By Lauret Savoy One woman's journey to uncover her history and other missing stories of the American landscape
• Press Release Navajo Nation Tribal Council Should Vote No to Escalade Proposal Aug 2016 We Have Opportunity to Protect Grand Canyon from Incompatible Development
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 3115, Superior National Forest Land Exchange Act Jul 2017 NPCA submitted the following position to the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands ahead of a legislative hearing scheduled for July 14, 2017.
• Magazine Article A Billion-Dollar Driveway Fall 2014 | By Seth Kantner A life-long resident of Alaska worries a road would destroy the wilderness he knows and loves.
• 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.
• Policy Update Position on Emmer Discussion Draft Jul 2017 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.
• Magazine Article Swimming with Dinosaurs Fall 2013 | By Amy Leinbach Marquis Atlantic sturgeon are making a surprising comeback in the Chesapeake Bay.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 3480 and H.R. 4202 Jun 2016 NPCA submitted the following positions to the House Natural Resources Committee ahead of a markup on June 14 and 15, 2016.
• Blog Post Reflecting on Selma, 50 Years Later Mar 2015 | By Frank Peterman On March 7, 1965, courage and villainy collided on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, when John Lewis and more than 500 other peaceful protesters marched for their constitutional right to vote.
• Blog Post How a Group of Silent Women Won a Battle with President Wilson a Century Ago Aug 2020 | By Jennifer Errick The first organization to picket the White House launched a hard-fought campaign to win a major victory for women’s rights.
• Blog Post Don’t Just See the Movie! Nov 2012 | By Nicholas Lund Honor Lincoln’s memory by helping to preserve more of Gettysburg
• Magazine Article Seeing Green Spring 2014 | By Rona Marech Decades of conservation efforts pay off for the endangered green sea turtle.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 5859, the Trillion Trees Act Feb 2020 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.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 2817, National Historic Preservation Amendments Act Jul 2016 NPCA submitted the following position on legislation being considered by the House Natural Resources Committee during a markup on July 12th and 13th.
• Policy Update Position on the American Public Lands and Waters Climate Solution Act Dec 2019 NPCA, along with partners, sent the following letter to the House Committee on Natural Resources. 
• Magazine Article Nature’s Night Lights Spring 2018 | By Julia Busiek After the sun sets, the bioluminescent show on Tomales Bay begins.
• Blog Post New NPS Video: Spend Three Minutes in the Wilderness Apr 2012 | By Jennifer Errick "In wildness is the preservation of the world," said Henry David Thoreau. Yet relatively little of the world is designated as wildness--at least here in the United States.
• Blog Post 'How Did They Let This Happen?' Apr 2013 | By Edward Stierli On the three-year anniversary of the Gulf oil spill, I hope my students remember the advice I gave them.
• Policy Update Position on Fire Suppression Funding Solutions Sep 2016 NPCA, along with partners, submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and Committee on the Budget.
• Policy Update Letter to CEQ Regarding NEPA Guidance on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Aug 2019 NPCA signed onto a letter representing the collective views of forty-one organizations representing millions of people.  Its members urge the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to act responsibly and wisely in its interpretation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) so that future generations may live on this planet in “productive and enjoyable harmony” with the environment as envisioned by Congress when it passed NEPA.
• Blog Post test, test, test Dec 2022 This is Linda's test page. 
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 2647, Resilient Federal Forests Act, Substitute Amendment Sep 2016 NPCA, along with partners, submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry ahead of a business meeting on September 13, 2016.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 2936, Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017 Oct 2017 NPCA, along with partners, submitted the following position to the House of Representatives ahead of an expected floor vote the week of October 30, 2017.
• Magazine Article Subterranean Secrets Fall 2019 | By Amy Berenbeim A Carlsbad Caverns Comic
• Policy Update Comments on Transparency in Science Rulemaking Oct 2020 NPCA submitted the following comments to the Environmental Protection Agency on the proposed supplemental rule regarding “transparency” in science
• Policy Update Position on Waters of the U.S. Regulations Jun 2019 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works ahead of a hearing scheduled for June 12, 2019.

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