Search results for “Kobuk Valley 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 Say No to Soda Mountain Solar Why say no to Soda Mountain Solar? NPCA has 6 reasons highlighting what's at stake near Mojave National Preserve.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 3480 and H.R. 4202 NPCA submitted the following positions to the House Natural Resources Committee ahead of a markup on June 14 and 15, 2016.
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Blog Post Living History and Solemn Reflection at Antietam Commemoration On September 17, 1862, the Union Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia battled for twelve savage hours on the banks of Antietam Creek in Maryland. When the fighting was over, 23,000 people had been killed, wounded, or declared missing, making that one day the bloodiest in the history of the Civil War.
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Magazine Article Slip Sliding Away? Hydraulic fracturing could endanger the American eel and harm the longest undammed river on the Eastern Seaboard.
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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 What’s in an Icon? NPCA’s visual personality has evolved dramatically over the last few years, but our logo hasn’t changed significantly in half a century. It was long overdue for an update. After about a year and a half of research, focus-group testing, surveys, and outreach, NPCA finally unveiled a modernized logo yesterday.
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Blog Post Major Victory for Clean Air Will Help Reduce Dangerous Levels of Soot 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.
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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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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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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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Policy Update Position on H.R. 2459, Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act NPCA submitted the following position to the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife ahead of a hearing scheduled for June 26, 2019.
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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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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 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 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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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 Swept Away A disaster in Johnstown, Pennsylvania stunted a town and changed a nation.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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 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 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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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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Magazine Article The Appalachian Trail Blazer Just how far could long-distance hiker Jennifer Pharr Davis push herself?
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