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Policy Update Letter Regarding Recent Park Police Activities NPCA, along with partners, submitted the following letter to the Secretary of the Interior in response to recent Park Police events in Lafayette Park.
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Magazine Article The Forgotten March The 1932 veterans’ protest in Washington had a lasting impact on America but disappeared in the dustbin of history. The Park Service is working to change that.
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Magazine Article Free Flowing For 30 years, activists talked about removing the Brecksville Dam in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Now it’s gone.
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Magazine Article The Otter Explosion Once hunted to the brink of extinction, sea otters have recolonized Glacier Bay National Park with a vengeance.
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Magazine Article A Billion-Dollar Driveway A life-long resident of Alaska worries a road would destroy the wilderness he knows and loves.
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Magazine Article Hidden Names, Hidden Stories A journey to the depths of Mammoth Cave to record signatures left by Civil War soldiers.
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Magazine Article In The Footsteps of a Dream Relive the history of the civil-rights movement in Alabama and Georgia.
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Blog Post The Next 11 Parks You Want to Visit Last summer, we asked supporters which national park sites were at the top of your bucket lists. Thousands of you responded. Here are the 11 parks you most want to explore — and why these places are great choices for any traveler’s wish list.
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Magazine Article Stewards & Storytellers Essex National Heritage Area in Massachusetts is one of dozens of heritage areas making America’s best idea even better.
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Magazine Article Something in the Water Meet a few of the people who are joining forces to secure the region’s lifeblood, and ensure New River Gorge National River's future for the next generation.
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Magazine Article Seeing Green Decades of conservation efforts pay off for the endangered green sea turtle.
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Magazine Article Lessons in the Tallgrass A teacher guides high-school students into the wilderness and learns a few valuable lessons herself.
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Magazine Article Lessons in Motion Homeschooling on the road isn’t always easy, but enthusiasts say the big wide world — including national parks — is the best classroom.
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Magazine Article Secrets of the Seabirds What can tracking sooty terns reveal about the threats seabirds face and the health of the ocean?
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Magazine Article Call of Duty For nearly 50 years, Lt. Col. Cheeseman and his troops have been a mainstay at Dry Tortugas National Park in Florida, where they have fixed up everything from a rusted iron lighthouse to leaky toilets.
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Magazine Article The Anniversary Gift As Civil War sites continue to mark 150 years since America's most important conflict, Harpers Ferry, Antietam, and Gettysburg tell old stories in a new light.
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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 Water You Waiting For? 10 Perfect Parks for Paddling Go beyond the hiking trail and enjoy parks from a refreshing vantage point: water. Rivers and lakes offer adventurous routes through some of the country’s most remarkable landscapes, including views you just can’t see from land. From lazy float trips to exhilarating whitewater, national parks have fun options for visitors of every experience level—sometimes even on different stretches of the same river.
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Magazine Article Out of the Wild A life-changing summer among the bears of Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.
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Magazine Article The Long Haul For more than four decades, Jill Baron has studied the changes to the air and water quality of a small corner of Rocky Mountain National Park, and her research exposed one of the biggest threats to the park’s alpine ecosystems.
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Blog Post 5 Summer Tips to Leave No Trace Outdoors Ways to enjoy day trips and vacations while causing minimal harm to the landscape.
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Magazine Article Man of Letters A third-generation stone carver, Nicholas Benson has left enduring marks on some of the park system’s most iconic monuments.
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Blog Post Trivia Challenge: The Most Celebrated People in the Park System Q: National parks don’t just preserve spectacular landscapes and wildlife. They also honor the people who have changed history and influenced American culture, from the Wright brothers to Harriet Tubman to Eugene O’Neill. Two noteworthy people have more national park sites named after them than anyone else, with four sites each. Can you name these two celebrated historic figures?
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Blog Post 10 Facts You Might Not Know About Frederick Douglass, in Honor of His 200th Birthday This famed abolitionist’s story is even more fascinating than what many of us learn in school.
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Magazine Article The DIY Desert Grab a map, load up on water and choose your own adventure at Mojave National Preserve.
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Magazine Article Vulture Vandals The ‘garbage collectors’ of the Everglades have a strange penchant for munching on windshield wipers. Can park staff stop them?
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Press Release Conservation Groups Push for Long Overdue Air Pollution Controls at Wyoming's Coal Plants Local residents and groups appeal to federal court for clean air standards
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Magazine Article The Wild Road Brent Steury and his collaborators have had a field day at an unlikely biodiversity hotspot: a park along a highway outside the nation’s capital where they have discovered dozens of new species.
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Blog Post A National Park Where You Can Drive Your Car on a Lake? One national park in the Lower 48 includes just a few short access roads, but for a couple of months a year, park officials allow visitors to drive their vehicles directly on two of the park's lakes. Can you name this park?
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 205, H.R. 1225, H.R.1941, H.R. 2427 & H.R. 3195 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the House Committee on Natural Resources ahead of a markup scheduled for June 19, 2019.
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