Search results for “George Washington Memorial Parkway”
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Press Release Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Can’t Come at Cost to Parks Dismantling conservation laws non-starter for national parks group.
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Press Release President's Budget Calls for Historic Investment in National Parks in Advance of 2016 Centennial President's Budget Calls for Historic Investment in National Parks in Advance of 2016 Centennial
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Press Release House Natural Resources Chair Introduces Centennial Act Draft Bill Would Establish Fund for Public-Private Partnerships to Fix Up Parks
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Press Release Ozone Rule Good Step, Missed Opportunity for National Parks Statement by Stephanie Kodish, head of NPCA’s Clean Air Program
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Press Release Trump’s EPA Pick Threat to National Parks Confirmation Hearing for Oklahoma AG Pruitt Shows Nominee Would Weaken Critical Protections for Park Air, Water
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Press Release Hundreds of Diverse Community Groups Call On Congress To Protect Public Lands During National Park Week Coalition includes LGBT, labor, women’s, disability, civil rights, Hispanic, African-American, Asian-American and Native American voices.
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Press Release National Parks Group Launches Visual Protest on Yellowstone Grizzly Hunt As a visual protest to Wyoming's grizzly hunt proposal, the grizzly bears have vanished from NPCA's logo for National Park Week.
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Blog Post Your Favorite Park Photos and Stories People around the country have shared some of their most poignant and intriguing moments in national parks on NPCA’s recently relaunched MyParkStory site.
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Press Release Trump Hiring Freeze Danger to Parks Already shrinking workforce threatens parks’ protection and management.
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Press Release Parks Group Responds to Interior Secretary Staff Loyalty Questioning Pierno: “To serve…is to protect the very foundation on which our country was built."
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Magazine Article A Whale’s Last Song After a renowned humpback whale was killed by a cruise ship, her carefully preserved remains were transformed into one of the biggest whale-skeleton exhibits in the country.
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Press Release Budget Proposal Threatens National Parks Cuts to Interior Department, EPA puts parks, park resources in jeopardy.
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Blog Post Park Staff Ordered to Violate Laws and Stand Aside as People Trashed Parks During Shutdown Rangers describe the despair of watching national parks sustain preventable long-term damage, as well as the terrible effects the historic standoff has had on morale.
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Press Release Gov. Perry’s Energy Department Could Harm Parks Protecting National Parks Requires Cleaner Energy Policies
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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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Press Release EPA Favors Mining Over Salmon, Parks and People in Pebble Mine Settlement The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reversed its previous science-backed ruling surrounding the proposed gold and copper mine for the Bristol Bay region, just 15 miles from Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. The Bristol Bay watershed supports the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery.
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Magazine Article Nature Fix Tired of feeling like the only person of color on the trail, Ambreen Tariq is trying to make the great outdoors welcoming to all, one photo at a time.
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Magazine Article Fighting for the Grizzly NPCA and others have worked for decades to protect Yellowstone’s grizzlies. Is the long-term recovery of the iconic species now in jeopardy?
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Blog Post One-of-a-Kind Destinations: 11 National Park Curiosities National parks preserve wondrous landscapes, stories, and artifacts—as well as a whole host of weird and exceptional sights. From wacky-looking rocks to giant monuments of steel, here’s a short list of places to explore that are like nowhere else in the world.
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Press Release Disappointing: Supreme Court To Reconsider Park Service Authority Over Waterways in Alaska The Supreme Court agreed to consider a case involving the National Park Service’s ability to regulate hovercraft and other activities on navigable waters within national park boundaries.
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Press Release Shameful: Interior Wages War on Alaska’s Bears and Wolves “It is shameful for Interior Secretary Zinke to endorse a war on bears and wolves in Alaska’s national preserves." -- Theresa Pierno
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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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Blog Post Enjoy Seeing America? Innovative Campaign Needs More Artists and Art Lovers Three-year anniversary of crowdsourced poster project by NPCA and Creative Action Network provides even more opportunities for New Deal-inspired national park art
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Policy Update Position on Reauthorization of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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Press Release Eliminating Species Act: Congress Threatens Wildlife and Wild Lands Legislation threatens the long-term conservation of American wildlife and wild lands, and the national parks that call them home.
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Press Release Already Short-Staffed Park Service Asked to Support Border Patrol Security This decision could have serious consequences for national parks already struggling with a reduction in staff.
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Press Release EPA to Revisit Clean Air Standards, Prioritizing Science and Data “We are pleased that the EPA is once again prioritizing science and its obligation to protect people and the environment." - Ulla Reeves, NPCA's Clean Air Program Senior Advocacy Manager
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Magazine Article Between a (Kindness) Rock and a Hard Place People leave behind painted rocks to brighten strangers’ days, but in national parks they’re fueling controversy and less-than-civil debate.
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Press Release High Visitation, Low Funding and Staff Jeopardizing Parks National park visitation nears 331 million in 2017.
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Press Release Trump’s EPA Nominee Must Protect Parks Parks Depend on Clean Water, Air Protections Enforced by Agency
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