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• Report The Case for Fixing and Building Out National Parks Air Monitoring Networks Our national parks are places of unparalleled natural wonder, historical significance, and cultural value, yet most are plagued by poor air quality that can threaten human health and detrimentally impact park ecosystems.
• 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.
• 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.
• Report NPCA Audited Financial Reports The National Parks Conservation Association is committed to using every dollar you donate efficiently and effectively.
• 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.
• 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
• Magazine Article New and Improved Winter 2011 | By Kelly Bastone Preserving West Virginia’s best-loved view.
• 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.
• 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?
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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 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.
• Policy Update Testimony: African-American Cultural Heritage and Environmental Justice Feb 2019 Written testimony of Alan Spears, NPCA Cultural Resources Director, for a forum held by the House Committee on Natural Resources on February 15, 2019.
• 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.
• 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 Video: Oil Trucks Mow Down Trees at National Preserve Jun 2018 | By Nicholas Lund NPCA's staff and partners were appalled to learn of the conditions inside Big Cypress.
• 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.
• Policy Update Position on Nomination of Rob Wallace May 2019 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resouces and Committee on Environment & Public Works in advance of anticipated nomination hearings. 
• 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 EPA and State Regulators Slash Plan to Limit Coal Pollution in Utah Oct 2020 Latest business-as-usual plan by EPA and Utah officials fails to limit haze-causing emissions
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 205, H.R. 1225, H.R.1941, H.R. 2427 & H.R. 3195 Jun 2019 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the House Committee on Natural Resources ahead of a markup scheduled for June 19, 2019.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 3225, Restoring Community Input and Public Protections in Oil and Gas Leasing Act Jun 2019 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources ahead of a hearing scheduled for June 20, 2019.
• Policy Update Position on the Pebble Mine Project Oct 2019 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources & Environment ahead of a hearing scheduled for October 23, 2019.
• Blog Post More Than 100 Reasons to Keep Fighting for Clean Air Aug 2016 | By Ulla-Britt Reeves Work by air quality advocates since 2012 has led to significant pollution reduction plans affecting more than 100 coal-fired power units across the country. Now, we need the Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen a key environmental rule to make more of these victories for cleaner air possible.
• Magazine Article The Life Aquatic Fall 2013 | By Jennifer Bogo At New York City’s Harbor School, students use Gateway National Recreation Area’s maritime environment as their classroom—and preparation for life after graduation.
• 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.
• Press Release Advocates Agree: EPA Nominee Pruitt a Disaster for Nation’s Air, Water Jan 2017 Heads of 19 Environmental, Conservation Groups Come Out Against Pruitt’s Nomination
• Magazine Article Out with the Old, In with the New Winter 2022 | By Julia Busiek A generation ago, thousands of people gathered in a remote corner of New Mexico to usher in a gentler, kinder age. Did it work?
• Press Release Trump to the American People: Your Public Lands Aren’t Worth Protecting Dec 2017 In a move that disregards millions of people including local tribes, today President Trump signed a proclamation to erase and gut protections at Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments.
• 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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