Search results for “Kings Mountain National Military Park”
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Policy Update Position on S. 34, Midnight Rules Relief Act NPCA submitted the following position to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security ahead of a business meeting on May 17, 2017.
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Blog Post To Have a Functioning Democracy, We Need Truth and Justice 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.
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Policy Update Position on S. 21, the REINS Act 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.
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Magazine Article Remembering Stonewall A spark, a movement and now, a monument.
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Magazine Article Renaissance Man Frederick Douglass’s home tells the story of a man who overcame enormous obstacles and paved the way for others to do the same.
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Blog Post 5 Wild Places for a Beach Vacation An advocate for vehicle-free beaches praises some of the last undeveloped places along America’s coasts — and why protecting these untamed lands is so important.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 799 and H.R. 3683 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
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Blog Post Fifty Years Later: Wilderness & Civil Rights in the Same Breath 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.
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Magazine Article A High-Flying Recovery A 40-year study follows the once-imperiled peregrine falcons of Alaska.
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Policy Update Position on S. 1079, Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act 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.
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Blog Post Reflecting on Selma, 50 Years Later 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.
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Policy Update NPCA views on provisions of H. R. 5986 NPCA shared the following position with the House Natural Resources Committee ahead of an anticipated hearing scheduled for October 1st, 2020.
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Blog Post 2 Million Gallons of Pig Waste Next to a National River? What a Load of Hogwash! NPCA and its advocates are fighting an industrial confined animal feeding operation designed to hold thousands of hogs just 6 miles upstream from America's first national river.
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Policy Update Testimony: Department of the Interior Reorganization 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.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 2647, the Resilient Federal Forests Act NPCA submitted the following position on H.R. 2647, the Resilient Federal Forests Act, when the bill was considered on the House floor on July 9, 2015.
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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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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 What’s Next for Bears Ears? Earlier today, NPCA joined a coalition of partners suing the federal government to keep Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument fully protected.
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Magazine Article A Raw Deal Marine wilderness is at stake in the ecological heart of Point Reyes National Seashore.
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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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Magazine Article Branching Out Is there more than one species of Joshua Tree?
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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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Policy Update Review of Trump Administration's Infrastructure Legislative Outline NPCA analysis of the Trump Administration's infrastructure legislative proposal, as reported by the Washington Post, found the outline aims to accelerate infrastructure projects, at the cost of clean water, clear air, expertise of federal agency staff, judicial review, longstanding bedrock environmental laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
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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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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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Magazine Article Swept Away A disaster in Johnstown, Pennsylvania stunted a town and changed a nation.
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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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Blog Post 6 Reasons to Act Today for Clean Air in Arizona It’s no secret that reducing air pollution creates a host of benefits for human health and the environment. But what does it mean in real terms when a coal plant cleans up its act and spews fewer particulates into the air?
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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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Blog Post Why Aren’t More Women Outdoors? How one enthusiast is getting more women out of the city and onto the trails.
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