Search results for “Lake Meredith National Recreation Area”
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Magazine Article Remember Aunt Harriet She taught them courage and endurance. Now, Harriet Tubman’s descendants can pay their respects at a park honoring the great liberator.
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Press Release Salazar Visits New York City to Discuss Role of Urban Parks in America's Great Outdoors Statement by NPCA Northeast Senior Program Manager Oliver Spellman
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Press Release BLM Postpones Lease Sale Near Chaco Culture National Historical Park BLM to conduct additional review of energy development’s potential impacts on cultural site
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Policy Update Position on S. 32, California Desert Protection and Recreation Act NPCA submitted the following position to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining ahead of a hearing scheduled for July 26, 2017.
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Press Release Everglades National Park Protected by Court Decision to Prevent Expansion of Urban Development Boundary After lengthy appeal process, the state of Florida denies Lowe's Land Use Change to build outside of Urban Development Boundary
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Blog Post What’s the Buzz? In 1860, one year before Confederate and Union armies collided for the First Battle of Bull Run, the rolling country meadows that one day would become Manassas National Battlefield Park saw an invasion of a very different kind. Swarms of cicadas (genus Magicicada) made their appearance, as they do just once every 17 years, filling the countryside with their noisy song and bumbling flight.
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Blog Post Trivia Challenge: The Longest Stretch of Undeveloped Barrier Island in the World Q: Barrier islands make up about 10 percent of the world’s coastline, and the United States has the greatest number of them with more than 400. The U.S. also holds the world record for the longest stretch of undeveloped barrier island, which happens to be located in a national park. Can you guess which park?
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Press Release On Earth Day, Everglades National Park Gets Critical Freshwater with Additional Bridging of Tamiami Trail Major milestone for restoring America’s Everglades with the kickoff of an additional 2.6 miles of bridging on Tamiami Trail.
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Blog Post How Can Congress Fund More Park Projects for the Next Century? Here’s One Way The Centennial Challenge will leverage funding from a variety of sources to improve the experience for national park visitors.
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Blog Post No Trash, Just Treasure We’ve been treated to quite a spring here in the California desert. After experiencing the greatest Joshua tree bloom on record this past April, one of our hardest-fought battles finally ended in victory last month—NPCA and our supporters have defeated the Eagle Mountain Landfill proposal once and for all.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 1488 & H.R. 2897 NPCA submitted the following positions to the House Natural Resources Committee for ahead of a markup scheduled for October 3rd-4th.
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Magazine Article Our New Parks A sweeping public lands law paves the way for the addition of Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument and Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument to the National Park System.
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Magazine Article On the Rocks She went to City of Rocks and Castle Rocks to climb. Then it rained. And hailed. And snowed.
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Blog Post Being Gay Outside Can they see me? Am I safe? One staff member explores ways to honor queerness and make the outdoors more inclusive and welcoming for all people.
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Blog Post Happy Birthday, Denali 7 things you might not know about Alaska’s most famous national park, which celebrates its centennial this weekend
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Blog Post Why Science Matters for National Parks National parks have a long history of supporting scientific discovery. Let’s continue to fund the world-class research at our country’s most iconic and inspirational places.
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Magazine Article Hot on the Trail So-called supercorals in the National Park of American Samoa may hold clues to saving coral reefs everywhere.
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Magazine Article Like a Good Neighbor The Park Service teams up with its Mexican counterparts and the University of Arizona to master the intricacies of adobe preservation.
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Press Release National Parks Group Applauds Lights Out Decision for Silurian Valley Solar Proposal Statement by David Lamfrom, California Desert Associate Director, National Parks Conservation Association
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Blog Post Going Caveman in Grants Pass NPCA's traveling park lover visits a rare marble cave system in the Pacific Northwest, only to be reunited with an amusing character from his past.
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Press Release Court Defends Park Service’s Authority to Manage Its Waterways The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of the National Park Service, reaffirming the agency’s ability to regulate activities on navigable waters within national park boundaries.
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Blog Post Love Letters to Mojave National Preserve Reflections and recommendations from an ever-growing base of fans, including #ThoseParkGuys from the hit show, “Rock the Park”!
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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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Magazine Article Unearthing a Lost City The Park Service plans to shed light on pre-Colonial Indian society at the site where Pocahontas met John Smith.
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Blog Post Say No to Soda Mountain Solar Why say no to Soda Mountain Solar? NPCA has 6 reasons highlighting what's at stake near Mojave National Preserve.
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Press Release National Parks Group Defends Park Service’s Authority to Manage Its Waterways NPCA is siding with the National Park Service as the U.S. Supreme Court takes up Sturgeon v. Frost, a lawsuit challenging the park service’s authority to manage activities on navigable rivers within parks in Alaska.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 87, H.R. 295, H.R. 1621, and H.R. 4680 NPCA submitted the following positions on legislation being considered by the House Committee on Natural Resources during a markup on March 15 and 16, 2016.
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Magazine Article Out of Sync Climate change is affecting the national parks’ most ancient and critical cycles. Can citizen science help?
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Press Release Alaska Denies Crucial Safe Zone for Denali Wolves The state of Alaska Board of Game rejected a proposal to reinstate a wolf safe zone outside a portion of Denali National Park and Preserve. The proposal would have prevented hunting and trapping of Denali’s wolves when they roam out of the park onto nearby state land.
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Policy Update Position on the PARC Act NPCA submitted the following position to members of the House Natural Resources Committee in advance of a hearing on November 18, 2015.
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