Search results for “San Juan National Historic Site”
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Park Ford's Theatre National Historic Site Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth assassinated 16th President Abraham Lincoln in this building just five days after General Robert E. Lee surrendered in April 1865, signaling the end of the Civil War. Still an active theater, this site includes the compact performance space where the president and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln watched the production of Our American Cousin from a box above the proscenium arch. Beneath the theater, a basement museum now houses artifacts from the event, including the president’s greatcoat, the assassin’s diary and the actual .44-caliber Derringer from the fatal attack. Across the street, visitors can also explore the home of the German tailor William A. Petersen where Lincoln was carried after the shooting and was tended to until his death hours later.
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Park Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site tells the story of the first African Americans to train as U.S. Army pilots and ground support during World War II.
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Park Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve Just outside of downtown Jacksonville, this preserve protects 46,000 acres of wetlands, hardwood forests, and coastal dunes along with historic sites and relics from 6,000 years of human habitation. The site is named for and helps preserve the history of the 35 Native American chiefdoms that lived in the region and spoke the Timucua language. The site also contains the remains of a plantation with slave cabins, helping researchers better understand the culture and daily lives of the enslaved people who toiled there. The park also includes a historic beach founded during the Jim Crow era by Florida’s first African-American millionaire, a 1920s-era golf course, and a memorial to France's failed New World colony.
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Alexandra Medina Alexandra Medina graduated from The University of Texas at San Antonio with a B.A. in history and minor in museum studies in 2023. She is currently continuing her studies at The University of Texas at San Antonio in the M.A. program for history.
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Park Mesa Verde National Park This World Heritage Site preserves more than 600 cliff dwellings typical of the Ancestral Puebloan culture, which lasted from about 450 to 1300. The allure of this park is not only the remarkable ruins, but also the mystery of the people who inhabited them.
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Park Golden Spike National Historical Park Golden Spike National Historic Site marks the spot where the Union and Central Pacific Railroads converged on May 10, 1869, creating the nation's first transcontinental railroad.
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Video NPCA King Gillette Hike For people to become protectors of our national parks, they must first have opportunities to know and love them. NPCA’s Los Angeles team including Young Leaders Council members recently explored Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area with San Fernando Valley community members, and reflected on our work to connect people with parks and help empower park advocates.
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Resource 2019 National Park Heritage Awards NPCA awarded the 2019 National Park Heritage Award to members of Congress who were sponsors or original cosponsors of bills within the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act and voted in favor of final passage.
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Blog Post NPCA's 10 Under 40 Meet the next generation of leaders protecting national parks and public lands
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Blog Post 9 Romantic Park Trips for You and Your Valentine Whether you want to live it up near the city lights or get away from it all under the starlight, national parks provide a wealth of amorous adventures for you and your Valentine.
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Press Release Legal Agreements Block Oil And Gas Drilling Across 1 Million Acres in Central California Federal judge confirms Bureau of Land Management's suspension of oil and gas leasing after earlier lawsuits
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Press Release Administration Rolls Back Methane Waste Protections Weakened methane waste rule puts public health, lands at risk.
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Policy Update Letter on Training in Federal Government NPCA, along with partners, submitted the following letter to congressional leadership in response to OMB circular M-20-34 and an Executive Order dated September 22, 2020.
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Blog Post Where the Wild Things Were A trip to Las Vegas can bring out the wild animal in many of us—but visitors to the southern Nevada desert may not realize the kinds of actual wild animals that roamed the area long before the flashing lights and clanking slot machines took up residence on the Strip. A mere 30 minutes north of all the glittery casino action, a 23,000-acre swath of the desert known as Tule Springs could become one of our next new national monuments—and you might call this remarkable place “where the wild things were.”
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Magazine Article A Leap of Faith What will it take to save California’s yellow-legged frog?
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Blog Post Latinos Are Critical to the Environmental Movement Latino Conservation Week highlights the contributions of Latinos in caring for the environment, while encouraging the community’s culture of stewardship. Here’s how NPCA supports Latino engagement every day.
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Blog Post 50 Years Later: Reflecting on the Significance of Earth Day The first Earth Day launched her career as an environmental historian and her path as an activist. Now, even as the pandemic keeps her at home, she commemorates the lasting significance of the Earth Day movement.
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Press Release Parks Group Applauds Monumental Proposal for Grand Canyon Watershed “NPCA strongly supports the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition’s leadership and vision for Tribal nations’ homelands and the enduring landscape surrounding Grand Canyon National Park" -- Southwest Regional Director Ernie Atencio
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Press Release America's Great Waters Coalition Designates New Waterways to Advocate for Restoration Needs Coalition adds Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, St. Johns and Hudson Rivers
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Press Release Delayed Air Quality Protections Favors Pollution Over Parks and Public Lands The Bureau of Land Management is delaying implementation of commonsense methane rules, putting the health of national parks and park visitors at risk.
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Policy Update Position on S. 2807 NPCA, along with 64 partners, submitted the following position to members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
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Press Release Trump Administration Rolls Back Methane Rules, Provides More Loopholes for Oil and Gas Industry to Pollute National Parks and Communities Rolling back the regulations to allow more air pollution increases harm to public health and the health of national parks.
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Press Release Omnibus Proposal a Boost for National Parks More funding for park repairs, wildfires.
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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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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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Blog Post NPCA Honors Civil Rights Activist Over the summer, NPCA presented its Marjory Stoneman Douglas Award to Japanese American civil rights activist Barbara Takei for her efforts to protect the Tule Lake Unit of WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument. We spoke with this inspiring advocate to learn more about her work and what moves her to preserve this part of American history.
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Blog Post Arlington House May Get a New Name Legislators and descendants of Robert E. Lee and the families he enslaved want to drop the Confederate general from the formal name of the manor house at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Magazine Article Full Circle At Bears Ears National Monument, a crew of young men from the Pueblo of Zuni is caring for the cliff dwellings their ancestors built 800 years ago.
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Policy Update NPCA position on legislation before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Ahead of a business meeting scheduled for November 18th, NPCA sent along the following positions to Senators on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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Blog Post Underground Adventures Go below the Earth’s surface to explore exquisite realms that evolved in total darkness. These 10 national park caves are places to learn about the mysterious worlds under our feet.
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Policy Update Position on S.508, S. 1863, S. 2340, S. 2827, S. 2924, S. 3121, and S. 3119 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks ahead of a legislative hearing scheduled for March 4th, 2020.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 1289, S. 718, S. 1622, S. 1696, S. 1930, S. 1943, S. 1993, S. 2177, S. 2309, S. 2412, S. 2548, S. 2805, S. 2839, S. 2954, S. 3020,S. 3027, S. 3028, H.R. 2880, S. 1923, S. 1690 NPCA submitted the following positions on legislation being considered by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee during a markup on July 12, 2016.
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Blog Post Meet the Woman behind Waco Mammoth NPCA interviews Waco Mammoth Program Coordinator Raegan King, who oversees Waco Mammoth National Monument and currently serves as president of the Museum Association of Waco.
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Magazine Article A People’s Historian Talking about the past and the future with the Park Service’s new chief historian.
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Blog Post FAQ: New National Monument at Pullman Shines a Spotlight on Community Spirit and Our Shared Heritage Earlier today, President Obama stood in front of hundreds of community advocates in Chicago and declared Pullman a national monument. This long-awaited event is the result of years of work by NPCA and so many people that care about this place’s significant contributions to our shared history, from the U.S. labor movement to Civil Rights.
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Press Release New Walking Tour at Stonewall National Monument Launches Today, Connects LGBT History New user-friendly map available to public starting today.
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Magazine Article To Collect or Not to Collect As higher visitation and climate change increasingly threaten artifacts, can the Park Service afford to leave them in place?
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Policy Update NPCA Position on select legislation before the House Committee on Natural Resources NPCA shared the following position with members ahead of a full committee legislative markup held by the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources scheduled for September 30th, 2020.
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Letter NPCA Letter on National Capital Region Fees for Demonstrations The National Park Service has proposed a variety of changes for special events and demonstrations in and around Washington, D.C., such as modifying and establishing restricted areas at memorials, establishing a maximum permit length of 30 days, and expanding the number of areas where a permit isn’t necessary for demonstrations. The most controversial change is floating the idea of recovering some of the costs for demonstrated events.
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Report NPCA 2018 Annual Report A Nation's Parks: A Nation's Story
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Resource Marine Programs in the Sun Coast Region NPCA’s Sun Coast Region approaches our marine work with an eye toward ecosystem conservation, restoration and resilience. We work strategically to identify, assess and proactively address the evolving threats to marine ecosystems and all species and resources within them.
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Staff Dana Krissoff Dana joined NPCA in 2021 as Associate Art Director, with the objective of aligning NPCA’s visual brand identity to the mission and core values.
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Valeriia Tolkacheva Valeriia Tolkacheva is a recent transplant to South Florida. She grew up amid the frozen swamps and canals of St. Petersburg, Russia, always cherishing that city’s careful geometry but taking every chance to explore the forests of wild blueberries and granite-lined lakes lying outside the urban limits.
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Staff Michaela Pavlat Michaela Pavlat is the Indigenous Partnerships Field Representative for the Mid-Atlantic Region. She is a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.
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