Search results for “North Cascades National Park”
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Park New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park An entire park site devoted to jazz, right in the heart of the French Quarter, where even the park rangers serenade you? It’s a dream come true for music lovers who want to learn more about this distinctly American art form fused from the roots of the blues, swing, ragtime, and gospel traditions. Though relatively few national park sites are devoted to the arts, visitors to New Orleans can learn about pivotal figures like Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton and enjoy live performances and ranger-led educational programs five days a week. The park’s four main sites include a jazz museum and a performing arts center at the Old U.S. Mint building, a National Historic Landmark in the French Quarter.
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Park Harpers Ferry National Historical Park As a vital early American town, Harpers Ferry has been the site of a number of historical events. It was a point of supply for Meriwether Lewis’s Corps of Discovery, the site of John Brown’s abolitionist raid in 1859, a key Civil War battlefield, and the meeting place for the Niagara Movement, a 1906 gathering of civil rights leaders. Its position at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers not only set the stage for such historic events but also makes the park a haven for rare native plants.
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Report Unnatural Disaster: Global Warming and Our National Parks Impacts of global warming already are being documented in our national parks, and the challenges grow daily. This is a crisis of our own creation that will not go away on its own. It will require decisive action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through conservation and development of carbon-free power sources. There is growing scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions will need to fall by at least 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 to avoid some of the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
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Staff Graham Taylor Joining the Northwest Regional Office in the summer of 2015, Graham stays busy connecting people to parks in his role as Program Manager
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Staff Lauren Cosgrove Having grown up in New England as a Brooklyn native, Lauren currently serves as campaign director for NPCA’s Northeast Region. Since Lauren started with NPCA in 2014, she has worked to bolster nation-wide park funding, restore natural, historical and cultural resources and build a movement for community-led stewardship and advocacy for Northeast national parks.
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Policy Update Position on Biscayne Marine Reserve Legislation NPCA has taken the following positions on legislation related to a proposed marine reserve in Biscayne National Park.
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Magazine Article Warm With A Chance Of Crowds A study forecasts how climate change could affect national park visitation.
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Policy Update Welcome to the 116th Congress On behalf of all of us who work at the National Parks Conservation Association and our more than 1.3 million members and supporters nationwide, welcome to the 116th Congress.
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Magazine Article The Long Way Home Opening a tribal house and closing a divide in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.
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Magazine Article Winter Wonderland After a 15-year battle to reduce the noise and pollution from snowmobiles, a happy ending in Yellowstone National Park.
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Blog Post We Can’t Afford to Wait Climate change is having real, wide-ranging effects now on national parks around the country.
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Blog Post Back Open but Hit Hard One month after the partial government shutdown ended, park partners and local businesses continue to grapple with significant financial losses.
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Magazine Article A New View Has the long-troubled relationship between Grand Canyon National Park and local indigenous people entered a more harmonious era?
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Blog Post ‘A Conservationist’s Dream’: Congress Passes Great American Outdoors Act Legislation represents a historic victory for parks and will authorize billions of dollars to fund critical maintenance projects and conserve vulnerable lands.
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Magazine Article Rebuilding the Past The National Park Service is finding new ways to preserve historic buildings that would otherwise crumble into disrepair.
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Policy Update Position on S. 257, S. 312, S. 355, S. 391, S. 1073, S. 1403, S. 1438 & S. 1522 NPCA submitted the following positions to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks ahead of a legislative hearing scheduled for July 19, 2017.
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Magazine Article The Enemy Within For two centuries, feral goats plagued what is now Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. In the end, controlling them required hunting, fencing and a bit of ungulate espionage.
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Blog Post Collapsing Homes Threaten One of Our Most Popular National Seashores Coastal erosion is destroying beachfront houses near Cape Hatteras, creating dangerous debris and compounding problems for park staff.
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Magazine Article Pristine No More Researchers are detecting traces of human waste in some of the national parks’ most remote lakes and streams.
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Magazine Article A Penny For Your Thoughts Do pretty pictures inspire people to donate? Research shows photos of park threats may raise money faster.
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Blog Post Visiting Rocky Mountain at Peak Season? Not a Problem. An NPCA intern shares her experiences navigating this highly visited park's reservation system — and offers some insights to help make your visit just as successful.
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Magazine Article Wranglers of the West A fully loaded mule train is a rare sight in most parts of the country, but traditional livestock packing is still thriving in Glacier National Park.
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Magazine Article The Lassen Effect Discovering Bumpass Hell, Chaos Jumbles, and the Many Marvels of Lassen Volcanic National Park.
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Blog Post My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Best Ever Bike Trip She thought biking 320 miles would be a breeze. Then came the hills. One outdoor lover challenges herself to “Pedal for the Parks.”
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Blog Post Alaska Officials Use Pandemic to Transfer Funds for Mining Road The misappropriation of $35 million in state funding to help small and medium-sized businesses could instead support construction of a 211-mile road through the wildest national park landscape in America.
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Magazine Article 500 Islands, 2 Paddlers, 1 Scrabble Board The writer and his wife’s aunt pack up their gear and grub, hop into a canoe, and venture into Minnesota’s Voyageurs National Park.
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Magazine Article Open Roads & Endless Skies At Great Basin National Park, a father and son gaze at stars, touch ancient trees, and reflect on space, time and the universe.
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Magazine Article Dress Rehearsal An emergency at the Grand Canyon provides plenty of lessons for Park Service staff and other federal agencies.
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Magazine Article The Retirement Cure Making the most of retirement with a 40-foot RV, a patch of dirt and full-time seasonal volunteer work in the national parks.
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Blog Post Yosemite’s Dirty Air Secret Haze and ozone pollution in this beloved California park are having wide-ranging effects on people and the environment.
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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 BLM Removes Lands Near Zion from Oil, Gas Lease Sale Move will protect national park resources from impacts of energy production.
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Magazine Article A Grand Teton Winter Experience a simpler, quieter side of Grand Teton National Park.
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Magazine Article Getting Some Distance Is social distancing in busy national parks achievable? During the pandemic, some researchers headed to Arches to find out.
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Press Release Bowing to Political Pressure, Acadia Allows for Some E-Bike Use on Historic Carriage Roads "Without properly evaluating impacts, and without adequate time for the public process to help inform this decision, the park is opening itself to unnecessary visitor conflicts," NPCA's Lauren Cosgrove.
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Fact Sheet Water for America’s Everglades Florida’s waters are in crisis. Everglades National Park and Florida Bay are starved for freshwater, while the northern Caloosahatchee River and St. Lucie River are inundated with polluted Lake Okeechobee discharges. The solution to this crisis is to send clean water south to the Everglades, restoring some of the historic “River of Grass” that once dominated this unique ecosystem.
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Report NPCA 2016 Annual Report Our national parks are about stunning landscapes, well-worn trails and historic moments, but they are also about people.
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Melissa Hendricks Melissa Hendricks lives in Annapolis, Maryland. Her last article for National Parks focused on the ways that tides and storms constantly change our national seashores.
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Park Jewel Cave National Monument Explorers have mapped more than 192 miles of twisting underground passageways in this cave system and continue to explore more of it each year with no end in sight, making it the third-largest cave in the world. Discover fragile formations of crystal, rock and gypsum during the popular ranger-led tours below ground. Above ground, a series of short trails offer pleasant walks through the park's pine forest, canyons and fields of wildflowers.
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Park George Washington Carver National Monument Explore George Washington Carver’s home and farm from which he revolutionized 19th Century farming and sustainable agriculture. The park also features his “Secret Garden” which shows his love for the natural world.
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Fact Sheet Modifying Tamiami Trail: A Solution for the Everglades Tamiami Trail is an unnatural barrier that cuts the Everglades in two in the center of its body.
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Staff Christine R. Goepfert Chris is the region’s Associate Director in NPCA's Minnesota Field Office in Minneapolis.
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Sooin Choi Sooin Choi is working on a Master of Professional Studies in Urban and Regional Planning degree at Georgetown University, where she also received a BS in Foreign Service. She is passionate about urban economic and environmental resilience in addressing inequities faced by vulnerable communities.
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Park Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site This ranch was once the home of “Montana’s Cattle King,” Conrad Kohrs, who purchased the property from its original owner, Canadian Johnny Grant, and went on to graze some 50,000 cows on these pastures. The site is maintained today as a working ranch on 1,500 acres of land with 90 historic structures.
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Resource Wanted: Secretary of the Interior President Trump is looking for a new Secretary of the Interior. If NPCA could write the job posting, it would look something like this.
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