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Blog Post The Darkest National Parks in the United States Last week, the International Dark-Sky Association named a new dark-sky park — the seventh site in the U.S. National Park System that now holds that honor. This coveted designation recognizes not only excellent stargazing opportunities, but also superior night-sky stewardship through responsible lighting, public education and community outreach.
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Magazine Article Remembering Rosenwald With Booker T. Washington’s help, Julius Rosenwald built 5,000 schools for Black students across 15 Southern states. Why do so few people know his name?
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Spotlight An Insider's Guide to Olympic & Beyond Can’t decide between glacier-capped mountains, lush rainforests and wild seashores? Olympic National Park has them all, and more.
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Spotlight An Insider's Guide to the Four Corners Situated on the Colorado Plateau amid ancient volcanic mountains, statuesque buttes and sharp canyons, the Four Corners region where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona meet is rich in cultural and geological wonders.
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Magazine Article A Greenway for the People How a 28-mile loop around Jamaica Bay is changing the face of Gateway National Recreation Area.
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Blog Post Fuel Your Park Adventure: 10 Great Restaurants Near National Parks Restaurants just outside national parks can be destinations in their own right. Our staff recommends 10 eateries where you can enjoy local delicacies.
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Press Release Restore the Grizzly Bear to the North Cascades The time to restore grizzly bears in the North Cascades Ecosystem is now.
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Press Release Amache National Historic Site Act Passes Senate Committee, Heads To Full Senate Consideration Japanese American survivors and descendants of the Amache Incarceration site are one step closer today to preserving the area into a national park site.
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Magazine Article An Unexpected Find Paleontologists unveil a new reptile at Petrified Forest National Park.
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Policy Update Perspective on National Park Visitation NPCA submitted the following statement to members of the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations ahead of a hearing scheduled for December 6, 2022.
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Blog Post Q&A: Do Visitors Really Need to Be Shut Out of National Parks During the Government Shutdown? As we enter week two of the government shutdown, closed signs and barricades at national parks have become powerful symbols of the fiscal standoff’s impact on people around the country.
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Blog Post 5 Reasons the ‘Lower Energy Costs Act’ Is a Bad Idea A proposed new energy bill expands mining and fossil fuel production at the expense of our public lands, hurting our national parks and some of the most irreplaceable resources they protect. Let’s not let it become law – the long-term price is too great.
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Blog Post Got Milkweed? Crowdfunding Creates a Butterfly Effect for National Parks An innovative new website helps people help the causes they care about.
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Blog Post Celebrating Places and Stories Within Nature: Blackwell School National Historic Site The second video in a new series showcases park advocate Daniel Hernandez and his deep generational connection to Blackwell School National Historic Site in Texas.
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Blog Post If You Want Jobs and Justice, Keep Our National Parks Open The National Park Service needs to do more to connect diverse communities with public lands — and we need to support and fund these efforts.
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Press Release Conservation Groups to Defend Postponement of Oil & Gas Lease Sales Wyoming, industry double down on failed attempt to rewrite the law for oil and gas companies
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Blog Post Back Open but Hit Hard One month after the partial government shutdown ended, park partners and local businesses continue to grapple with significant financial losses.
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Blog Post Four Stops, One Destination It was hands-down the most impressive lightning storm I have ever seen.
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Magazine Article Naming Right Introducing First Peoples Mountain.
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Magazine Article Safe Passages A new children’s book shows how highways can harm wildlife — and puts a spotlight on a deadly stretch of road near Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Magazine Article A Turnaround at Grand Portage A Native American Tribe and a national park unit find common ground
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Press Release Rocky Mountain National Park Leader Celebrated with National Conservation Award Stephen T. Mather Award presented to former Rocky Mountain National Park Superintendent Darla Sidles.
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Magazine Article Lizards on the Lam Florida’s latest invasive species is a 4-foot-long South American lizard with a taste for eggs that threatens the Everglades’ ground-nesting animals.
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Press Release Successes Mount as Funds Fix Our National Parks, Create Jobs and Support Local Economies “These funds brought hope and once again showed where the American people want Congress to invest. Congress must build on this momentum and extend this funding to fix more national parks.” - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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Press Release Subaru of America, NPCA Take Home Silver Halo Award for Best Sustainability Initiative Partnership recognized for ongoing commitment to reduce landfill waste from America’s National Parks
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Press Release State Denies Industrial Hog Facility’s Permit, Protecting Buffalo National River Watershed We are pleased with the state’s decision to put federally protected waters and local economies above private industry.
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Blog Post The Country’s Largest Desert Is Not Where You Think — and It’s Cold The U.S. is home to four major desert systems, and the largest encompasses a national park of the same name. But it might not be where you expect.
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Spotlight An Insider's Guide to Badlands & Beyond Badlands National Park is a vast wilderness of jagged buttes, spires and pinnacles, mixed-grass prairies, and the world’s richest trove of fossils from the Oligocene epoch, estimated at 23 to 35 million years old.
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Blog Post ‘A Conservationist’s Dream’: Congress Passes Great American Outdoors Act Legislation represents a historic victory for parks and will authorize billions of dollars to fund critical maintenance projects and conserve vulnerable lands.
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Blog Post State of Arkansas Wastes Taxpayer Money in Flawed Water Monitoring Study The fight to protect the Buffalo National River from an industrial hog farm continues to twist and turn, much like the river itself.
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