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• Resource Oil and Gas Development at Theodore Roosevelt National Park In May 2014, the National Parks Conservation Association partnered with FracTracker to record the impacts of oil and gas development on North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
• Resource Climate Change and Florida’s National Parks Florida is among the most climate change-threatened states in the United States. Florida’s treasured national parks—spanning the Greater Everglades ecosystem northward into Gulf Islands National Seashore and beyond—are being impacted by our changing climate.
• Video NPCA Find Your Voice: Big Thicket National Parks belong to you. See how a group of young advocates in Texas learned how to explore, protect, and advocate for their park as a part of the National Parks Conservation Association’s Find Your Voice initiative.
• Spreadsheet Top 50 Worst Regional Haze Polluters While most haze pollution does not originate in national parks, it can travel hundreds of miles from its source – coal plants, vehicles and oil and gas operations are the main culprits– harming the air we breathe, and the health of park visitors, wildlife and nearby communities.
• Resource Ambler Mining Road Fact Sheets Alaska recently proposed a private industrial road along the southern Brooks Range to facilitate construction of an open pit copper mine near Ambler, Alaska.
• Policy Update Position on S. 951, the Regulatory Accountability Act May 2017 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs ahead of a business meeting on May 17, 2017.
• Press Release Federal Court Declares Bush-Era Rule that Removed Protections against Mountaintop Removal Mining Invalid Feb 2014 Ruling ends regulation that removed essential protections for Appalachian waterways against mountaintop removal and surface coal mining
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 3480 and H.R. 4202 May 2016 NPCA submitted the following positions on legislation being considered by the House Committee on Natural Resources Federal Lands Subcommittee during a hearing on May 24, 2016.
• Press Release Everglades Coalition and Allies Offers Plans to Protect Everglades Costal Communities at Annual Conference Jan 2014 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.
• Magazine Article Desert Gator Summer 2017 | By Nicolas Brulliard The life and times of an unlikely resident of Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument.
• 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
• Magazine Article Unusual Suspects Fall 2011 | By Amy Leinbach Marquis What triggered the fall of Organ Pipe’s acuña cactus?
• Magazine Article Harlequin Hardships Winter 2020 | By Nicholas Lund Why is the Western population of Harlequin ducks declining?
• Policy Update Position on BLM Reorganization & Relocation Sep 2019 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the House Natural Resources Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations ahead of a hearing scheduled for September 10, 2019.
• Blog Post Paradise Lost Sep 2017 | By Robin Martin McKenna 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.
• Blog Post Protecting Our History—and Growing Our Economy—in Orange County, Virginia Apr 2012 Too often, efforts to protect historical sites end up pitting preservationists against landowners and developers, resulting in wasted time, wasted money, and hard feelings all around.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 2748, H.R. 2918 & H.R. 4348 Sep 2019 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife ahead of a hearing scheduled for September 24, 2019.
• Magazine Article Death Valley Angst Summer 2018 | By Michael P. Branch, Hannah V. Branch On a desert hike, a father and his teenage daughter contemplate canyons, cliffs and the heartache that comes with growing up.
• Magazine Article A First Lady Winter 2015 | By Rona Marech Mary McLeod Bethune, the child of former slaves, grew up to start a university and advise presidents.
• Blog Post There Is No Precedent Nov 2016 | By Theresa Pierno We must learn from the grave injustices of Manzanar and other World War II incarceration camps — not doom ourselves to repeat one of America’s darkest mistakes.
• Blog Post Photographing the World's Rarest Fish Sep 2016 | By Lynn Davis One researcher gives us a glimpse behind his underwater camera
• 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 Accidental Hero Winter 2020 | By Nicolas Brulliard Crispus Attucks is believed to be the  first casualty of the American Revolution,  but 250 years later, it’s still difficult to untangle fact from myth.
• Magazine Article Remembering Stonewall Fall 2016 A spark, a movement and now, a monument.
• Magazine Article A Mammoth Discovery Fall 2015 | By Jennifer Errick The lucky find that led to the creation of a monument.
• Policy Update Position on S. 1079, Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act May 2019 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining ahead of a hearing scheduled for May 14, 2019.
• Blog Post Victory: Incinerator Project Defeated at Monocacy Dec 2014 | By Joy M. Oakes County officials in Maryland vote down a trash-burning incinerator that would have been just yards from a Civil War battlefield.
• Blog Post To Have a Functioning Democracy, We Need Truth and Justice Mar 2021 | By Ramadji Doumnandé I lived through three bloody coup d’états before coming to the U.S. To move forward from violence and division, we must be able to denounce propaganda, speak our truth and find common ground.
• 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.
• Magazine Article Wolf Hunt Spring 2013 | By Amy Leinbach Marquis Paleontologists stumble on ancient wolf remains in Tule Springs.
• Magazine Article Chasing the Dream Winter 2011 | By Amy Leinbach Marquis Nebraska’s Homestead National Monument celebrates the independent farmers who shaped the American landscape.
• Magazine Article Living Monuments Fall 2018 | By Kate Siber Ian Shive traveled to the corners of the sea to document the watery wonders of the nation’s marine monuments.
• Blog Post In Baltimore, the Red and the Blue Wave Together as One Dec 2016 | By Jim Stratton The flag at Fort McHenry reminds us what America stands for and how our nation has endured through decades of challenges.
• 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.
• Magazine Article Seeing Green Spring 2014 | By Rona Marech Decades of conservation efforts pay off for the endangered green sea turtle.

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