Search results for “Gateway National Recreation Area”
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Blog Post Parks in Peril: Can We Protect Utah's Desert Parks from Energy Development? After 8 years of work by a movement of energy advocates, Arches and Canyonlands could soon gain unprecedented protections from oil and gas development. But we need your help.
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Press Release Supreme Court Guts EPA’s Ability to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Pollution, Escalating the Climate Crisis in National Parks and Communities Today’s decision creates a fallout of implications for public lands and ecosystems that will be felt for generations.
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Magazine Article Troubled Waters For decades, biologists and anglers stocked national parks with nonnative trout. What will it take to undo the ecological damage?
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Press Release Polluted Parks: Trump Administration Moves to Approve Weak Utah Haze Plan, Threatening Parks and Communities Plan would allow state coal-fired power plants to continue polluting the air we breathe, increasing hazy skies in Utah’s treasured national parks.
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Blog Post The Park You Won’t Visit This Winter Many parks have been closed throughout the pandemic, but of the 63 national parks managed by the National Park Service, only one is always closed during the winter, in part because it is so remote.
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Blog Post Arlington House May Get a New Name Legislators and descendants of Robert E. Lee and the families he enslaved want to drop the Confederate general from the formal name of the manor house at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Magazine Article What the Streams Say At Shenandoah National Park, research shows that the Clean Air Act is working—but in some places, healthy streams are still a distant dream.
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Blog Post Pushing the Limits “There is nothing like pushing your physical limits to help you remember you're alive and capable of pushing,” my coworker and teammate Elizabeth Jordan reflected.
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Policy Update Letter Regarding Recent Park Police Activities NPCA, along with partners, submitted the following letter to the Secretary of the Interior in response to recent Park Police events in Lafayette Park.
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Press Release President Biden Proposes to Bring More Staff and Resources Back to Struggling National Parks "This budget would reinvest in our parks and would start to bring them out of the financial hole they’ve been trying to dig out of for over a decade." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA President and CEO
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Blog Post Charles Young Monument Preserves Enduring Legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers At the turn of the last century, a great American hero set an enduring standard of excellence that forged the basis of the modern National Park System.
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Magazine Article The Land of Fog and Sea A one-time Californian returns to Point Reyes.
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Magazine Article Garbage In, Garbage Out Volunteers and rangers removed more than 22,000 pounds of debris from Alaska’s national park beaches. But will the trash just come back?
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Press Release National Parks Group Applauds President Obama for Designating 396th National Park Site at Fort Monroe in Virginia Obama's first Antiquities Act designation will help protect America's Heritage
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Blog Post Protecting a Home for Wildlife on the Range Volunteers have worked for months to help the country's fastest mammal avoid a fatal problem: miles of fencing blocking their migration routes.
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Magazine Article Finders Weepers Every year, national parks receive dozens of rocks and artifacts returned by remorseful visitors. What are parks to do with the stuff?
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Press Release Groups Challenge Trump Administration Over Gray Wolf Delisting The removal of Endangered Species Act protection from gray wolves in the lower-48 states threatens populations just beginning to return to national parks including North Cascades and Dinosaur National Monument.
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Blog Post Restoring Resiliency at Dyke Marsh A year ago, Superstorm Sandy slammed the East Coast, demonstrating once again the power of nature. It left behind $65 billion in damage affecting 24 states and 70 national parks.
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Press Release Wyoming State House Moves Land Deal Forward, Helping to Protect Grand Tetons from Inappropriate Development Land deal protects nearly 1,400 acres of landscape
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Magazine Article Fourth Rock from the Sun Can Lassen Volcanic National Park help NASA learn about life on Mars?
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Press Release Clean Air, Park, Public Health Advocates Blast EPA Statement To Delay Critical Air Pollution Protection Press report indicates EPA planning to push back deadline for Regional Haze Rule
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Press Release Park Advocates Celebrate as Waco Mammoth Declared Newest National Park Site City of Waco, Baylor University, Waco Mammoth Foundation, NPCA and local school children worked for years to make mammoth fossil site part of Park System
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Press Release Florida Fisherman and Park Champion to Receive National Award Dr. Marty Arostegui's work protecting this national treasure will have lasting impacts for our country and future generations of divers, fishers, boaters, and other national park visitors.
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Press Release Groups Successful in Raising Concerns with Proposed FPL New Nuclear Reactors in Florida Citizens and public interest groups block building of two new nuclear reactors near Biscayne Bay
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Press Release California Protects Greater Joshua Tree Landscape from Contentious Project with New Legislation The Eagle Crest project would threaten the national park, wildlife, and desert water sources.
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Magazine Article Forest Lights Are the synchronous fireflies of Great Smoky Mountains getting too popular?
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Magazine Article A Road Less Traveled Students reconnect with African-American history on an 1,800-mile journey along the Underground Railroad.
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Policy Update Position on ESA@50 NPCA submitted the following statement to members of the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries ahead of a hearing scheduled for July 18, 2023.
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Policy Update Testimony on H.R. 2989 - Save our Sequoias Act Ahead of a legislative hearing scheduled for May 10th, the National Parks Conservation Association sent the following written testimony to the House Natural Resources Committee.
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Press Release Biden Administration Working Group Shares Recommendations to Protect Communities and Cherished Landscapes from Harmful Mining "From Alaska’s Brooks Range to Florida’s Everglades, mining proposals near national parks continue to threaten drinking water, clean air, fragile wildlife habitat and surrounding communities." – Charlie Olsen, Climate Policy Manager for the National Parks Conservation Association
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