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• Policy Update Position on S. 34, Midnight Rules Relief Act May 2017 NPCA submitted the following position to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security ahead of a business meeting on May 17, 2017.
• Blog Post 50 Years Later: Reflecting on the Significance of Earth Day Apr 2020 | By Lisa Mighetto The first Earth Day launched her career as an environmental historian and her path as an activist. Now, even as the pandemic keeps her at home, she commemorates the lasting significance of the Earth Day movement.
• Policy Update Position on S. 21, the REINS Act May 2017 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs ahead of a business meeting scheduled for May 17, 2017.
• Magazine Article Remembering Stonewall Fall 2016 A spark, a movement and now, a monument.
• Blog Post Unexpected Lessons from a Week in the Woods Jun 2013 | By Scott Kirkwood What can a person learn from a week in the woods? A lot, it turns out. But for me, none of it was quite what I was expecting.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 799 and H.R. 3683 Nov 2016 NPCA submitted the following positions to the Federal Lands subcommittee of the House Committee on Natural Resources ahead of a hearing on November 30, 2016
• 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.
• Policy Update Position to EPA on Air Quality Standards Proposed Rule Sep 2020 NPCA, along with partners, sent the following letter to EPA Administrator Wheeler regarding the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Particualte Matter proposed rule.  
• Blog Post Mormon Pioneer Highlights Fierce Determination in a Rugged Landscape Oct 2013 | By Alan Spears This story is part of our series on national heritage areas, the large lived-in landscapes managed through innovative partnerships to tell America’s cultural history.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 959 and H.R. 1289 Sep 2015 NPCA submitted the following positions on legislation considered on the floor of the House on September 16, 2015.
• Blog Post Remembering the Manongs and Story of the Filipino Farm Worker Movement May 2017 | By Dennis Arguelles In the 1920s and 30s, Filipino immigrants arrived in the United States seeking fortune but facing discrimination as they worked in the vast agricultural fields of the West. These “manongs” played a significant role in building the farm workers movement, organizing and striking alongside Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
• 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 S. 15 and S. 1230 Jun 2015 NPCA submitted the following positions on legislation being considered by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on June 9, 2015.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 3373 Oct 2017 NPCA submitted the following position to the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands ahead of a legislative hearing scheduled for October 11, 2017.
• Magazine Article Renaissance Man Spring 2013 | By Scott Kirkwood Frederick Douglass’s home tells the story of a man who overcame enormous obstacles and paved the way for others to do the same.
• 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 Fifty Years Later: Wilderness & Civil Rights in the Same Breath Sep 2014 | By Lauret Savoy This summer marks the 50-year anniversary of two landmark pieces of legislation—the Civil Rights Act and the Wilderness Act—that are linked more closely than they might seem.
• Blog Post Biden Restores National Monument Protections Oct 2021 Last week, the administration restored protections to three public lands: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. 
• Policy Update Testimony: Department of the Interior Reorganization May 2019 Written statement by John Garder, NPCA Senior Director of Budget and Appropriations, for the House Natural Resources Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on April 30, 2019.
• Policy Update NPCA views on provisions of H. R. 5986 Sep 2020 NPCA shared the following position with the House Natural Resources Committee ahead of an anticipated hearing scheduled for October 1st, 2020. 
• Magazine Article Slip Sliding Away? Summer 2012 | By John Grossmann Hydraulic fracturing could endanger the American eel and harm the longest undammed river on the Eastern Seaboard.
• Blog Post Major Victory for Clean Air Will Help Reduce Dangerous Levels of Soot Jul 2012 | By Mark Wenzler Health groups, environmentalists, and state governments won a major victory for clean air last month when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed tighter regulations on one of the most dangerous air pollutants we breathe every day: soot.
• Blog Post Help Kids “Leave No Trace” Jan 2015 | By Jennifer Chambers As we start a new year, it’s a perfect opportunity to make a resolution to spend more time in nature with the young people in our lives.
• 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.
• 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.
• Magazine Article The Long Way Winter 2021 | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan The 4,600-mile North Country Trail has been painstakingly constructed by a devoted group of supporters over four decades. It’s only two-thirds done and largely unknown, but step by step that is changing.
• 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.
• Magazine Article A High-Flying Recovery Summer 2015 | By Kate Siber A 40-year study follows the once-imperiled peregrine falcons of Alaska.
• Magazine Article Lost and Found Spring 2010 | By Amy Leinbach Marquis College students make a stunning discovery that benefits Maggie Walker National Historic Site.
• Blog Post Better Than Fiction May 2014 | By Katherine DeGroff Imagine you’re 27 years old. You’re a talented military strategist and an accomplished soldier. In fact, you have dueled the strongest and bravest of your enemies—and won—repeatedly. You’ve been captured as a prisoner of war and sold as a slave. You’ve been a mercenary and a pirate. You’ve won yourself a coat of arms and the distinction of being a gentleman.

Pagination