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• Video Care for parks. Care for each other. Over the years, park advocates like you have spoken up on behalf of the places we all love and supported our work protecting America’s national parks. But today, NPCA President & CEO Theresa Pierno is asking you to do something a little different.
• Video Celebrating You and Our Love of National Parks Last week we celebrated National Park Week and the important role these special places have in our lives. Today, I want to send a message to those who make help make sure there are parks to celebrate ─ you.
• Resource Magazine Submission Guidelines for Writers and Photographers National Parks is an award-winning, quarterly magazine known for high-quality photography and writing. The magazine is published by the National Parks Conservation Association, a nonprofit group dedicated to the protection and enhancement of the National Park System.
• Resource Texas Young Leaders Advocacy Council NPCA’s Texas Regional Office created the Texas Young Leaders Advocacy Council (YLAC) as part of NPCA’s strategic effort to engage young people with varying backgrounds, community connections and experiences to develop their voice, and speak up for our parks and expand our core of young advocates and volunteers.
• Resource Sustaining Indiana Beaches The scenic beaches of Indiana Dunes are disappearing. In order to sustain this critical asset to Indiana’s economy and quality of life, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must conduct a federal damage mitigation feasibility study.
• Policy Update Position on H.Con.Res.71, FY18 Budget Resolution Oct 2017 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the Senate ahead of expected floor votes on October 19, 2017.
• Policy Update Position on S.225, S.298, S.327, S.774, and S.1152 Dec 2019 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources ahead of a business meeting to discuss pending legislation scheduled for December 12, 2019. 
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 2546, Protecting America's Wilderness Act Feb 2020 NPCA submitted the following position on H.R. 2546 and proposed amendments to members of the House of Representatives ahead of floor vote scheduled for February 12, 2020. 
• Press Release Arizona Proposal Allows Aging Coal Plant to Increase Air Pollution for Decades Jul 2015 Cholla Power Plant bypasses strong pollution controls, threatens air quality
• Blog Post National Monuments Under Threat May 2017 | By Jennifer Errick Last week, the Trump administration issued an executive order that could alter or even attempt to rescind national monument designations that have been established since January 1, 1996.
• Press Release Groups Sue to Stop Oil and Gas Exploration in Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve Jul 2016 Seismic Testing Threatens Endangered Florida Panther and Water Resources
• Policy Update Testimony: Pride Forum Jul 2019 Written statement by Chad Lord, NPCA Senior Director of Water Policy, for the House Committee on Natural Resources on July 24, 2019.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 205 and H.R. 1941 Sep 2019 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the House of Representatives before a floor vote on September 11th.
• Magazine Article A Quest to Remember Winter 2016 | By Julie Scharper 116,000 Americans were killed in World War I. Why has it taken a century to build a national memorial in Washington, D.C.?
• Blog Post Protecting Our Underwater Wonders Mar 2015 | By Theresa Pierno Earlier this month, my husband and I escaped the endless East Coast winter and traveled to California with NPCA partners and colleagues to celebrate the wilderness at Point Reyes National Seashore.
• Policy Update Position on the Land and Water Conservation Fund Jun 2019 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources ahead of a hearing scheduled for June 25, 2019.
• Magazine Article A Lion’s Den Summer 2015 | By Kevin Grange The mountain lions of the Santa Monica Mountains face a rash of urban perils. Can they be saved?
• Blog Post 10 Under 40 Apr 2021 | By Qwynne Lackey, Steffanie Munguia Members of NPCA’s Next Generation Advisory Council shine a spotlight on young leaders around the country who are making a difference in conservation.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 3548, Border Security for America Act Oct 2017 NPCA submitted the following position to the House Homeland Security Committee ahead of a legislative markup scheduled for October 4, 2017.
• Magazine Article New and Improved Winter 2011 | By Kelly Bastone Preserving West Virginia’s best-loved view.
• Blog Post Focus on Water: Celebrating National Water Quality Month Aug 2012 | By Sarah Gaines Barmeyer Did you know that August is National Water Quality Month?
• Press Release Organizations Welcome EPA’s Plans to Reconsider Ozone Standards Oct 2021 Stronger standards are long overdue to protect nature from dangerous ozone pollution
• Policy Update Position on Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act Jun 2017 NPCA shared the following position on the Discussion Draft of the “Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act (SHARE Act)” with the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands ahead of a legislative hearing on June 14, 2017.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 3990, National Monument Creation and Protection Act Oct 2017 NPCA, along with partners, submitted the following position to members of the House Committee on Natural Resources ahead of a markup scheduled for October 11, 2017.
• Blog Post Three Years Later: Gulf Coast Still Recovering from BP Oil Spill Apr 2013 | By Tom Kiernan This Saturday, April 20, marks the third anniversary of the oil rig explosion that devastated coastal communities, waters, and lands in the Gulf of Mexico and imposed tragic loss among 11 families.
• Blog Post Author Shares His Love for the Darkest Skies and Most Brilliant Stars May 2012 | By Lynn Davis Paul Bogard has a great gig traveling around the world to ponder the darkness of night skies and the corresponding brilliance of millions of stars.
• Blog Post Years of Abuse and Overuse Make the Colorado River the Most Endangered River of 2013 Apr 2013 | By Meghan Trubee This year’s Most Endangered Rivers report from American Rivers makes one thing clear: It is not sustainable for a single river to support 36 million people.
• Policy Update Position on the Expanded Wildlife Extinction Package Sep 2018 NPCA submitted the following positions to House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands ahead of a hearing scheduled for September 26, 2018.
• Magazine Article Something in the Water Winter 2012 | By Heather Lukacs and Scott Kirkwood Meet a few of the people who are joining forces to secure the region’s lifeblood, and ensure New River Gorge National River's future for the next generation.
• Magazine Article The Farthest Edge Winter 2021 | By Dorian Fox Chasing  solitude  — and Thoreau —  on the Outer Beach of Cape Cod National Seashore.
• Press Release House Advances Package of Bills Aimed at Eliminating Species Sep 2018 "We must not gamble with the future of America’s wildlife and wild lands." 
• Blog Post The Anniversary of Superstorm Sandy Oct 2013 | By April Mims Exactly one year ago today, Superstorm Sandy made landfall in the New York metropolitan area, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.
• Press Release New Walking Tour at Stonewall National Monument Launches Today, Connects LGBT History Sep 2017 New user-friendly map available to public starting today.
• Press Release Science Confirms Cadiz Water Project Would Harm the Largest Spring in Mojave Trails National Monument Apr 2018 A peer-reviewed scientific study confirms the Cadiz Inc. water mining proposal would threaten the largest spring in California’s largest national monument, Mojave Trails in the Mojave Desert.
• Magazine Article Gift of the Glaciers Fall 2015 | By Laurie McClellan Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore offers visitors beaches, bluffs, clear waters, and 10,000-year-old hills of sand.

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