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Park Wolf Trap National Park for The Performing Arts This unique performance space is the only U.S. national park devoted to the performing arts. Managed through a public-private partnership, the arts center hosts a wide variety of entertainment each year, from pop singers to elaborate dance troupes to comedians. It features three separate performance venues — a large amphitheater, a smaller performance space and a Theatre-in-the-Woods especially for children — as well as walking trails and picnic spots to explore before or after the show.
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Blog Post The 'Outrageous Evil' That Led to the Birth of the National Park Service Today, the National Park Service celebrates its 99th birthday. Establishing an agency dedicated to the care of America’s national parks is one of our country’s most visionary accomplishments. The lands and landmarks our park rangers protect are among the world’s greatest wonders.
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Magazine Article The Beaver That Didn’t Give a Dam Solving the mystery of the ancient Palaeocastor.
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Press Release Badger-Two Medicine: Too Sacred to Drill US Interior Department moves to cancel Solenex lease in the Badger-Two Medicine
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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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Press Release America's Great Outdoors Report Provides A Promising Vision for Connecting Americans to Our National Parks New conservation plan helps preserve and connect Americans to our national heritage
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Blog Post America's Summit on National Parks Moving from vision to action
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Policy Update Position on Amendments to Senate Budget Resolution NPCA submitted the following positions on amendments to the budget resolution under consideration by the Senate in March 2015.
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Magazine Article Exiled to Paradise Kalaupapa National Historical Park celebrates the triumph of the human spirit over Hansen’s disease.
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Magazine Article A Grand Teton Winter Experience a simpler, quieter side of Grand Teton National Park.
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Magazine Article Behind the Cover Illustrator and designer Annie Riker on how she created the centennial issue cover of National Parks magazine.
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Blog Post Total Eclipse? Totally Worth It Undeterred by long drives and short nights, thousands relish a rare total solar eclipse at Oregon's John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.
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Magazine Article Silversword Fight In Haleakalā National Park, a charismatic plant battles for survival.
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Magazine Article The Aftermath Revisiting Gulf Islands National Seashore two years after the biggest offshore oil disaster ever.
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Magazine Article Mercury Rising? How dragonflies are helping scientists understand mercury pollution in parks.
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Blog Post Trivia Challenge: The Park That Spans Time Several national park sites span two time zones, such as North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park, whose North Unit operates on Central Time and South Unit operates on Mountain Time. One U.S. national park site, however, spans three different time zones. Can you name this site?
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Blog Post A Glimpse into a Dark Part of America’s History A traveling park lover takes his mom into a windy desert landscape to try to imagine what life was like behind the barbed wire fences of a war relocation center more than 70 years ago.
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Magazine Article Snowed In Surviving a winter in Glacier National Park takes a strong marriage—and 25 pounds of coffee.
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Blog Post Will 2012 Be a Landmark Year for Cleaner Air in National Parks? This year marks a critical deadline for the EPA to implement and enforce rules that protect clean air around the country.
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Policy Update Testimony: Impacts of the Partial Federal Government Shutdown NPCA submitted the following statement to members of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee ahead of a hearing scheduled for January 15, 2019.
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Magazine Article The Grouse Effect An unlikely coalition is fighting to protect the Gunnison sage-grouse.
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Press Release National Parks Vital to Administration's New Plan to Preserve America's Great Outdoors Statement by NPCA President Tom Kiernan
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Blog Post Remembering Stonewall The events behind America’s first national park site honoring LGBT history
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Press Release Stonewall Makes History Again: Becomes First National Park Site Dedicated to LGBT History After more than two years of building strong public support in the community, across the nation and in Congress, National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) celebrates President Obama’s historic designation of Stonewall National Monument, the first national park site dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history.
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Magazine Article A Complicated Past Is the U.S. Ready for a National Park Site Devoted to Reconstruction?
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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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Magazine Article If a Tree Falls, They’ll Hear it An innovative tool calculates the level of noise pollution across the country.
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Magazine Article Songs of the Wild Celebrating national parks with new music in the great outdoors.
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Magazine Article No English? No Problem. As the number of international visitors to national parks rises, the Park Service is speaking up — in multiple languages.
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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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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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