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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.
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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.
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Video History Is Here "Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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Resource NPCA & Nature Valley: 2021 Next Generation Impact Initiatives Nature Valley has donated $50,000 to NPCA to support the advancement of the next generation of park advocates – and the important park protection work ahead! – by funding impact initiatives led by members of our young leaders councils and Next Generation Advisory Council.
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Report NPCA Audited Financial Reports The National Parks Conservation Association is committed to using every dollar you donate efficiently and effectively.
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Magazine Article Dreaming, Reflecting, Remembering A special issue for these challenging times.
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Blog Post Florida Ups the Ante in Everglades Restoration with $90 Million Funding Surprise Disastrous flooding in South Florida is making the news again as water from Lake Okeechobee overflows and is released through the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee estuaries. Unfortunately, this is something that we see all too often in the region—the water that should naturally flow south from Lake Okeechobee is trapped by man-made barriers and confined to canals after heavy rains. This massive influx of highly polluted freshwater is destroying coastal estuaries and endangering public health, Florida’s economy, and the Everglades.
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Blog Post Capturing Wild Animals — in Pictures A team of students traveled to Stones River National Battlefield in Tennessee to learn camera-trapping — taking pictures of animals in the wild. See photos from their award-winning project.
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Blog Post What Endangered Animal Are You? Take our quiz to find out.
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Magazine Article Saving the Panther The Florida panther was going to die out. Then conservationists dreamed up a daring rescue operation.
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Blog Post Paradise Lost As we continue to learn of the human toll and horrific damage caused by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, NPCA’s executive vice president offers her shock and sadness over one of the places hardest hit — and her deep concern for everyone affected.
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Magazine Article Lessons in the Tallgrass A teacher guides high-school students into the wilderness and learns a few valuable lessons herself.
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Policy Update Position on S. 1160, S. 1335, S. 1446 & S. 1602 NPCA submitted the following positions to the Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources ahead of a markup scheduled for March 8, 2018.
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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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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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Policy Update Position on H.R. 1026, H.R. 2991 & H.R. 3440 NPCA submitted the following positions to the House Natural Resources Committee ahead of a markup scheduled for April 18, 2018.
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Magazine Article Angling for Cash Glen Canyon National Recreation Area tries a novel approach to control brown trout.
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Magazine Article Waiting for a Baby Boom Are decades of work to save Kemp’s ridley sea turtles paying off yet?
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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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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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Blog Post Connecting History and People along the Delaware & Lehigh This story is part of NPCA's series on national heritage areas, the large lived-in landscapes managed through innovative partnerships to tell America’s cultural history.
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Magazine Article Wild Run The documentary “This Land,” an exploration of public lands, conservation and racial justice, follows filmmaker and advocate Faith E. Briggs as she runs 150 miles through three national monuments.
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Blog Post A Woman on Mount Rushmore? Mount Rushmore National Memorial features the faces of four U.S. presidents. All, of course, are men, but Congress considered a bill in 1936 supporting the addition of a female figure to the granite memorial. Do you know which woman might have joined George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln?
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Magazine Article Déjà View NPCA Teams Up with Creative Action Network to Reimagine FDR’s “See America” Campaign.
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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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Press Release Everglades Coalition and Allies Offers Plans to Protect Everglades Costal Communities at Annual Conference This year’s 29th annual Everglades Coalition Conference, held January 9-11, 2014, will share its vision and priorities for continuing strong support for Everglades restoration efforts in 2014.
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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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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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Policy Update Position on H.R. 3905, Minnesota’s Economic Rights in the Superior National Forest Act NPCA submitted the following position to members of the House Natural Resources Committee ahead of a markup scheduled for November 7-8, 2017.
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Magazine Article Unusual Suspects What triggered the fall of Organ Pipe’s acuña cactus?
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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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Policy Update Request for Information on Monument Review Process NPCA sent the following letter to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke requesting more information on the monument review process.
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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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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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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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