Search results for “Amistad National Recreation Area”
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Blog Post Can Parks Bring Us Together on Climate? As the president shares his State of the Union address with a bitterly divided Congress, love for our parks is one of the few things they can actually agree on — and still fight for.
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Press Release New Law to Allow Loaded Guns in National Parks Puts Park Visitors, Wildlife, and America's Heritage at Risk New law creates unnecessary dangers
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Press Release Interior Secretary Zinke Must Safeguard Parks Mixed Record Could put Parks, Public Lands at Risk
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Policy Update NPCA support for H.R. 3684 NPCA sent the following letter to Members of the House of Representatives expressing support for the passage of H.R. 3684, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
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Policy Update Position on Wildlife Movement and Migration Corridors NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Environment and PUblic Works ahead of a hearing scheduled for November 14, 2023.
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Blog Post No Trophy Homes in Our National Parks Support the Fund that Improves and Protects Public Land
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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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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 How Much Pollution Is Too Much? EPA wants stricter standards to regulate the toxin ozone—but it could be a tough fight to enact these life-saving protections.
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Blog Post Helping Parks Recover How people are volunteering at parks after the longest shutdown in U.S. history
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Press Release New National Poll Finds Parks Are Political and Physical Solution to Address Climate "As the worsening climate crisis continues to threaten our health and our communities, this poll shows national parks unite us and offer solutions for addressing it."
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Press Release National Park Sites Added to the Chopping Block with Interior Department Announcement The Department of Interior released a list of twenty-seven national monuments designated under the Antiquities Act of 1906 that are now subject to public review, including Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. Interior Department’s announcement opens the door to review of any national monuments designated since 1996.
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Blog Post Scenes from the ‘New World’ Centuries before Instagram, John White’s drawings were the ‘social media’ that allowed explorers to share new discoveries with people around the globe.
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Blog Post Congress: Keep Our National Parks Open One beloved national park is already closing facilities in reaction to budget cuts.
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Press Release Massive Data Centers Approved to Tower Above Manassas National Battlefield Park A data center complex is slated to take up more than 20 million square feet of space at the park's edge, the size of several Pentagons, obstructing the viewshed along the main trail at this Civil War battlefield.
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Press Release Congress Again Moves to Dismantle Clean Water Protections for Parks House of Representatives votes for two bills that undo efforts to strengthen clean water protections
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Blog Post Fictional Heroes Saving Parks What if a radical domestic terrorist group sought to destroy national parks? NPCA interviews the fiction writers of “Leave No Trace,” an action thriller set in iconic places people value and adore.
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Blog Post America’s First National Park Created to Protect Human History In 1906, Congress established the first national park with the purpose of protecting man-made structures, not just natural features such as forests and canyons.
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Blog Post A Critical Moment for the Climate The new Inflation Reduction Act would authorize nearly $1 billion for the National Park Service to respond to climate change, among its many benefits. Here’s what's in the bill, what's at stake — and what you can do.
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Press Release Thirty-nine States Failed to Submit Pollution Reduction Plans to the Environmental Protection Agency Environmental organizations file notice of intent to sue the EPA to hold states accountable.
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Magazine Article Nesting Instincts What happens when species protection trumps historical interpretation at Petersburg National Battlefield?
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Magazine Article Living History Learning about the last century from the oldest ranger in the National Park System.
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Magazine Article The Census Taker Alex Mintzer has been counting ant colonies at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument for more than 30 years.
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Policy Update NPCA support for H.R. 6451 Ahead of a scheduled hearing within the House Natural Resources National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Subcommittee, NPCA sent the following statement outlining support for the Chiricahua National Park Act.
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Blog Post My Wish List for the Next Interior Secretary As Ryan Zinke steps down from his post overseeing public lands, NPCA’s president and CEO shares her priorities for his successor.
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Magazine Article One More Casualty at Little Bighorn? A battlefield in southern Montana details the fall of George Custer, the end of the American Indians’ way of life, and the crippling decline of the Park Service budget.
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Press Release Tribal and National Parks Groups File Lawsuit to Defend Mojave Desert Sacred Lands, Wildlife and Water from Cadiz Lawsuit challenges a fast-tracked decision in the final days of the Trump administration that threatens Mojave National Preserve and a deeply sacred cultural landscape for California Tribes.
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Blog Post Trivia Challenge: Guess This Park-Inspired Poet Q: What famed 19th century poet was inspired to serve as a nurse during the Civil War after spending time at Chatham Manor at what is now the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park?
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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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Press Release Interior Department Accelerates Public Lands Giveaway "National parks could be next on the chopping block. Today’s move by the Interior Department poses a real and immediate threat to national parks in Utah and across the West." -- NPCA's Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Kristen Brengel.
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