Search results for “Grand Teton National Park”
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Park Tumacacori National Historical Park Tumacácori National Monument protects the ruins of three, seventeenth-century missions, Tumacácori, Calabazas, and Guevavi. Mission San José de Tumacácori was established in January 1691. Today it is fifty miles south of Tucson, Arizona and eighteen miles north of the international border with Mexico at Nogales, Arizona.
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Press Release Congressman Matt Cartwright Joins Advocacy Groups to Discuss Potential Impacts of Fracking Near National Parks and Trails Discussion examines the impact of existing, proposed, and potential oil and gas development near America's parks
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Press Release National Parks Group Applauds Recommendations to Expand, Greater Protect Santa Monica Mountains NPCA supports the final "Rim of the Valley" proposal by the National Park Service, which could add 170,000 acres of important waterways, historic and cultural sites, and open spaces to Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
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Press Release Offshore Executive Order Threatens Coastal Parks Expanded drilling, marine sanctuary restrictions could endanger national parks.
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Press Release Pullman Partner Groups Honored with National Award for Work to Create Chicago's First National Park NPCA honors eight organizations with the national Marjory Stoneman Douglas Conservation Award for their work to establish Chicago’s first national park.
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Blog Post Women of the Parks: Washington, D.C., Edition Check out three national park sites that represent significant stories in women’s history — and in the story of our nation.
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Press Release Results of LGBT Theme Study Points to More Inclusive Future for America’s National Parks New National Park Service theme study identifies many nationally significant LGBT stories and sites.
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Blog Post One Step Closer to Chicago’s First National Park Today, just days after the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday, Congress is one step closer to preserving a Chicago site rich with Civil Rights and labor rights history by introducing legislation that would name the historic Pullman neighborhood as the city’s first national park.
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Blog Post One Step Closer to a Manhattan Project National Historical Park Advocates have been waiting more than a decade to create a national park that would preserve historic sites and artifacts involved in the development of nuclear energy and the making of the atomic bomb. Now, we could be remarkably close to seeing these once super-secret details and places in American history open and interpreted for the public.
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Press Release Key Legislation Introduced to Create Chicago's First National Park at Historic Pullman District Statement by Lynn McClure, Senior Midwest Regional Director, National Parks Conservation Association
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Blog Post “See America” Campaign Is About Connecting and Reconnecting Americans to Our National Parks More than 75 years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched a New Deal program called the Federal Art Project to help put the nation’s artists to work. The program created thousands of poster designs, many of which showcased our great national parks, from Petrified Forest to Yellowstone, along with other treasured landscapes.
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Press Release Santa Monica Mountains Park Ranger Honored with Stephen T. Mather Award “I love that the national parks are acknowledging and working toward becoming more reflective and representative of our country's beautiful diversity -- which makes us stronger” -- Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Ranger and Stephen T. Mather Award recipient Antonio Solorio.
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Blog Post The Longest Trail in the National Park System The National Park System offers more than 21,000 combined miles of trails through some of the most magnificent parts of the country, from remote wilderness paths to interpretive walking tours along city streets. Which trail is longest?
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Press Release Vela Steps Down as Acting Director of the National Park Service For more than three years, the National Park Service has been without a Senate-confirmed director.
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Blog Post How Charles Pinckney Changed My View of National Parks Exploring America’s most fascinating and least known places: A new series from a traveling park lover.
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Press Release Trump’s Interior Pick Must Protect Parks and Public Lands Should embrace and uphold values of our national parks
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Press Release Parks Group Reacts to Ranger Using A Taser On Native American Visitor at Petroglyph National Monument The excessive use of force by a park ranger on a Native American visitor in a routine encounter was shocking.
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Press Release Future of Blue Ridge Parkway to Be Determined by Park's First General Management Plan Four public meetings scheduled to help guide resource management at the park for next twenty years
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Blog Post On the Edge: Fracking and the Fate of Theodore Roosevelt National Park Craning my neck through the car window, my first impressions of Theodore Roosevelt National Park were hills, extending for miles under a stretch of blue skies and distant clouds. The heat was overwhelming, but the enigmatic new landscape had sparked my 11-year-old curiosity, and I stuck my nose to the window in eager anticipation.
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Press Release Victory! Blackwell School Becomes America’s Newest National Park Site With a stroke of his pen, President Biden directed the National Park Service to save history at this former segregated school for Latinos
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Blog Post Otterly Irresistible Park Wildlife In honor of World Otter Day, here are 7 facts you may not know about these charismatic mammals and where you can find them in the National Park System.
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Press Release Protections Sought for Endangered Frogs, Snakes at Pacifica's Sharp Park Protections needed for endangered species in habitat adjoining national park properties
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Press Release Public Interest Groups Tell EPA: Clean Up the Air in National Parks and Wilderness Areas 83 Groups Call for Improvements to Regional Haze Rule in Time for National Park Service’s 2016 Centennial
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Press Release Trump Administration Dismantles Clean Water Rule Days After Gutting National Environmental Policy Act, Putting Park Waters Further at Risk The administration’s rollback of clean water protections is a devasting blow to our national parks and surrounding communities.
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Press Release Blackwell School Poised to Become One of the First National Park Sites Dedicated to Modern Latino History The Blackwell National Historic Site will soon shed light on an often-overlooked injustice in American history and will be an important step forward for including Latino stories at our parks.
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Blog Post How a Border Wall Could Harm Two Desert Parks: A Closer Look The federal government could soon install new bollard wall on portions of the southern border, including 78 miles of barriers near National Park Service land.
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Press Release Drawing the Line: Final National Park Service Proposal Aims to Protect Alaska's Bears and Wolves Statement by Joan Frankevich, Alaska Program Manager, National Parks Conservation Association.
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Blog Post National Park-Related Recipes to Brighten Your Holidays What better way to celebrate the holidays than with food and drink! Here are 7 recipes with historical connections, shared online by national park sites.
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Blog Post Celebrating the National Park Service Centennial A roundup of 6 stories celebrating the 100th birthday of the National Park Service.
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Press Release Feeling the Heat: Protecting Desert National Parks from Industrial Solar National Parks Conservation Association Releases New Report, Video on Solar Development
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Press Release Parks Group Rejects Nomination of David Bernhardt for Interior Secretary We have serious concerns with the nomination of David Bernhardt for Interior Secretary and cannot support someone who doesn’t have the best interest of our parks, wildlife, air and water in mind.
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Fact Sheet Protecting National Park Landscapes in the Chesapeake Restoring Chesapeake landscapes means protecting our lands, air, and waters.
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Park World War I Memorial This monument honors all veterans throughout the country that served in World War I. Before being designated as its own individual unit of the National Park System, this park was previously dedicated to General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, who served as General of the Armies in World War I and known as "Pershing Park." The memorial in the heart of downtown D.C.'s Washington Mall features a statue of General Pershing, walls and benches describing his achievements in World War I, a fountain, a pond (which serves as an ice rink in the winter), and flower beds.
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Katie Taylor Katie works on a variety of NPCA's issue areas to increase media coverage and understanding around our national parks and their preservation. They enjoy working on environmental justice issues, particularly climate change and expanding cultural and heritage national park sites across the U.S.
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Fact Sheet Oil and Gas Development Near Chaco Culture Ensure oil and gas development is compatible with conservation of Chaco Culture National Historical Park
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Fact Sheet Promoting Tule Springs Local elected officials and community leaders anticipate working with the National Park Service soon to establish entrance points, plan visitor amenities, and establish best-management practices to make Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument a world-class destination.
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Park Washington Monument National Memorial This 555-foot obelisk honoring America's first president towers above the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and is one of the city's most distinctive landmarks. Visitors can get a wonderful 360-degree view from the observation area at the top. The interior of the monument contains nearly 200 memorial stones. These stones — some simple, some intricately carved works of art — were donated by states, cities, civic organizations and other nations in memory of President Washington. Twice each day, when staffing allows, the Park Service gives "walk-down tours," providing a detailed and fascinating history of the construction of the monument and stories about individual memorial stones for anyone willing to make the 900-step journey down by foot.
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Park Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument This monument preserves a dramatic cinder cone volcano with colorful mineral deposits at its rim and cinder fields and lava flows at its base that erupted sometime between 1040 and 1100 A.D.—the most recent volcanic eruption in the Colorado Plateau. The park also protects more than 3,000 acres around the volcano dotted with pine and aspen trees, shrubs, and wildflowers. Local citizens lobbied for protection of Sunset Crater Volcano after a Hollywood film company made plans to blast the volcano with explosives to simulate a landslide for a movie; President Herbert Hoover preserved the volcano by declaring it a national monument in 1930.
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Park Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument This site commemorates the June 25, 1876 battle between the U.S. Army's seventh cavalry, guided by Crow and Arikara scouts, and several bands of Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. The park includes battlefields, a cemetery, and trails to hike along with history.
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Staff Betsy Buffington Betsy Buffington, a longtime conservation partner and ally, is regional director of the Northern Rockies Regional Office, overseeing our work in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and Idaho.
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Report Supporting Comments on North Fork Watershed Protection Act North Fork Watershed Protection Act Passage: Comments by Community & Business Partners
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Letter Supporting Harriet Tubman National Monument NPCA letter to Governor O'Malley regarding proposed Harriet Tubman National Monument
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Staff Melissa Abdo, Ph.D. Melissa brings over 20 years of leadership experience to her role as the Sun Coast Regional Director of NPCA.
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Staff Christa Cherava Christa joined NPCA as a Government Affairs Department intern to gain exposure to natural resource policy. Today she is part of the Conservation Programs Department where she focuses on water issues—including coastal resiliency, sustainability, and also supports their Science Team.
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Staff Krista Vaisman Krista brings over a decade of successful fundraising and philanthropy experience to serve the incredible donors and partners who support NPCA.
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