Search results for “Kings Canyon National Park”
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Blog Post Remembering the Manongs and Story of the Filipino Farm Worker Movement 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.
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Blog Post Victory: Incinerator Project Defeated at Monocacy County officials in Maryland vote down a trash-burning incinerator that would have been just yards from a Civil War battlefield.
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Blog Post Help Kids “Leave No Trace” 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.
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Blog Post Exploring the Original Oil Country in Northwestern Pennsylvania 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.
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Policy Update Position on Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2020 NPCA submitted the following statement to members of the Senate Committee on Appropriations ahead of a markup scheduled for September 26, 2019.
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Magazine Article Branching Out Is there more than one species of Joshua Tree?
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 1772, the Delaware River Basin Conservation Act NPCA supports H.R. 1772, the Delaware River Basin Conservation Act of 2015 (DRBCA), which was heard by the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Power, and Oceans on July 23, 2015.
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Magazine Article The Lost Village The Japanese invaded this Alaskan island during WWII and sent the residents to Japan. Half died there; none ever returned home.
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Blog Post A Legacy Marches On Leaders reflect on a historic moment in America's history, 50 years later.
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Magazine Article The Mysteries of the Panama Hotel What treasures did Japanese-Americans abandon when they left for internment camps?
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Blog Post Commemorating the War of 1812 Did you know that the most narrowly declared war in our country’s history was the War of 1812?
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Magazine Article Seeing the Light The discovery of a rare blind catfish in Texas could have far-ranging implications for water and land use.
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Blog Post New NPS Video: Spend Three Minutes in the Wilderness "In wildness is the preservation of the world," said Henry David Thoreau. Yet relatively little of the world is designated as wildness--at least here in the United States.
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Blog Post The Spike That Connected the Country In 1869, engineers connected two railway lines in northwestern Utah, completing the world’s first transcontinental railroad.
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Magazine Article Homecoming Exactly 40 years after completing the Appalachian Trail, nine hikers reunited in Maine. How had walking those 2,193 miles changed the course of their lives?
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Blog Post Governor McDonnell: Please Don't Build Houses on a Historic Civil War Site "Freedom's Fortress" is an important part of Virginia's history and no place for a subdivision.
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Blog Post What’s Floating in the Mississippi? The Mississippi River is an icon of our nation that conjures up images from the pages of Mark Twain. Yet at the same time, the river has been a target for industrial waste that basically choked the life out of the river. Now, forty years after passage of the Clean Water Act, it is time to find out just how healthy our mighty Mississippi is today.
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Blog Post Living Wild in the Wake of Captain John Smith A new water trail in the Chesapeake Bay watershed connects urban residents to a wild landscape and a fascinating history of exploration.
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Magazine Article A Pool for the People The ruins of Sutro Baths recall life in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.
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Blog Post O Say, Can You See the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail? A new trail in Baltimore leads visitors through an iconic period in American history.
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Magazine Article Angel of the Battlefield Clara Barton’s home, just outside of Washington, D.C., tells the story of the Red Cross founder.
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Magazine Article Claiming the Rock The 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island, from 1969 to 1971, marked a turning point in American Indian activism.
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Press Release Judge Allows Conservation Groups to Defend Ventura County Wildlife Safeguards from Legal Challenge The First-Of-Their-Kind Ordinances Help Protect Local Wildlife But Have Been Challenged by Industry Groups
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Press Release Conservation Groups File Motions to Defend Ventura County Wildlife Connectivity The first-of-their-kind ordinances will help safeguard local wildlife in California
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Blog Post What the Fire Took An NPCA staff member documents the aftermath — both ecological and personal — of a wildfire that devastated 44,000 acres of the world’s largest Joshua tree forest.
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Blog Post Think Pink Early spring in Washington, D.C., is the time that thousands of locals and tourists come together to celebrate the city's famous cherry blossoms.
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Blog Post Exactly Where We’re Meant to Be How a weeklong celebration of people who look like me can create a greater sense of belonging for the Latinx community in the outdoors.
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Magazine Article An Ethereal Whatchamacallit What exactly was that 10-mile-long body of water in the desert?
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Blog Post 7 Facts About the Trump Administration’s Illegal Attack on National Monuments President Trump issued two proclamations to remove federal protections from roughly 2 million acres in Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments — the largest reduction of public lands protections in U.S. history.
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Blog Post The Rarest Sea Turtle in the World Last month, staff at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina found three nests belonging to the rarest sea turtle species in the world — an animal not commonly found in the state.
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