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Staff Todd Martin As the Northeast Senior Program Manager, Todd works to defend and enhance National Park units from Maine to Delaware. As a lifelong Mainer with more than a decade of grassroots environmental advocacy experience in the Pine Tree state, Todd is thrilled to join NPCA's northeast team.
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Park North Cascades National Park North Cascades National Park Service Complex encompasses 684,000 acres of wilderness, trails and rivers, as well as Ross Lake and Lake Chelan National Recreation Areas. In this vast terrain are jagged mountains, hundreds of glaciers and old-growth forests that have never been cut, with large, magnificent trees and tiered canopies of fir, hemlock and cedar. The snowy winters at this park produce stunning waterfalls in the spring — a phenomenon that is so beloved, the Cascade Range is named for them.
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Park New River Gorge National Park & Preserve This national park site includes 53 miles of the New River, a federally recognized Wild and Scenic River, as well as the deep gorge that surrounds it.
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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 Heather Vihstadt As Associate Director of the Trustees for the Parks, Heather Vihstadt and her fellow colleagues aim to grow the NPCA family of supporters to help preserve, protect and expand our national parks so they may remain beloved treasures for generations to come.
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Staff Jarrod Fasching Jarrod brings more than a decade of fundraising and philanthropy experience to serve the incredible donors and partners who support NPCA. Having spent years supporting arts education and higher-education institutions, he is thrilled to bring his abilities to advocate for and protect his greatest passion, the national parks and the natural world.
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Resource Regional Haze Pollution in EPA Region 10 Strong state regional haze plans are critical to restoring clean air and clear skies to treasured places like Mount Rainier, Crater Lake and Olympic National Parks. Unfortunately, states in EPA’s Region 10 are failing to adequately cut air pollution impacting these parks and wilderness areas and communities. EPA’s Region 10, also known as the Pacific Northwest region, includes Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska.
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Park Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve In southwest Oregon, this relatively small park is easy to miss, along a winding road in the mountains and a long way from anywhere — but it’s worth seeking out. Sometimes referred to as the “marble halls of Oregon,” the park’s dramatic marble caves feature a flowing river, ancient wildlife bones, petrified rock gardens and caverns to explore.
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Park Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument This section of the Sonoran Desert near the border between Arizona and Mexico features massive cacti, colorful birds and rock arches. An International Biosphere Reserve and a federally designated wilderness area, this park preserves the only large concentration of organ pipe cacti in the country, as well as hundreds of other native plant species, such as saguaro, cholla, mesquite and palo verde trees, and ocotillo. Hike on the park's nine scenic trails or take a drive on the 21-mile Ajo Mountain Drive to experience the vibrant desert landscape.
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Blog Post Celebrating World Water Day with Major Everglades Milestone It’s World Water Day and a great week for the Everglades. A new bridge will soon bring much-needed water to the park.
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Magazine Article Let’s Take This Outside Students and scientists team up to document every living thing in Saguaro National Park.
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Press Release Experts Confirm Dominion’s Transmission Line in Historic James River Not Necessary This report provides several better paths forward that will protect our parks and this nationally significant place from unnecessary harm.
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Blog Post The “Crooked River” That Inspired Earth Day Decades before Cuyahoga Valley officially became a national park, the severe pollution in its namesake river outraged and embarrassed the country, helping to spur landmark environmental legislation.
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Magazine Article Buzz Kill A high-tech mission to save critically endangered forest birds takes flight at Haleakalā National Park.
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Magazine Article Esther of the Rockies She left the corporate world to homestead in the mountains and became the Park Service's first female nature guide.
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Press Release Administration Points Blame at International Emissions in Attempt to Let U.S. Polluters Off the Hook While the administration attempts to point a finger at international emissions to let domestic polluters off the hook, the EPA model also shows that pollution continues to harm park and wilderness air quality.
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Blog Post Remembering the Founder of Black History Month The National Park Service and its partners offer ways to honor the legacy of this scholar and pioneer who changed the way we understand American history.
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Press Release Environmental Coalition Open Letter Demands Updated Pollution Regulations in Alabama The Alabama Department of Environmental Management must hold polluters accountable to the law and ensure our national parks and wilderness areas and their rangers, visitors, wildlife and surrounding communities have clear skies and clean air to breathe.
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Press Release US Groups Applaud Alberta Decision to Protect Crown of the Continent Conservation groups commend decision by Alberta government to protect Castle Wildland just north of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.
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Blog Post Saving Beauty, One Ranch at a Time More than four thousand acres of mineral-rich private land will now become part of Petrified Forest National Park thanks to a generous donor
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Blog Post The Largest Concentration of Glaciers in North America Glaciers around the world are melting due to climate change, but in one U.S. national park, approximately one-quarter of the land is still covered by these slow-moving masses of ice.
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Press Release Another Year Begins of Shipping Yellowstone Bison to Slaughter A dated management plan will force the National Park Service to ship upwards of 1,000 bison to slaughter this winter.
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Magazine Article Higher on the Mountain A small, threatened population of bighorn sheep defies the odds in Grand Teton National Park.
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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 Spice of Life Wild ginseng is disappearing from Southeast parks at an alarming rate.
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Press Release Another Year of Yellowstone Bison Slaughter is Unacceptable NPCA calls on National Park Service and State of Montana for a new, science based plan
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Magazine Article Hunt and Gather Fish? Blueberries? Candy? New research in Voyageurs National Park shows wolves aren’t exactly the diehard meat eaters of legend.
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Press Release Groups File Legal Brief in Supreme Court Supporting Stronger Clean Water Protections for All "We all deserve and expect clean water in our parks and for our communities. Our waterways are all connected and what pollutes one, impacts many....protecting clean water for drinking, swimming and fishing cannot wait." NPCA's Chad Lord
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Press Release DRIVE Act on the Right Track Statement by Laura Loomis, National Parks Conservation Association's Deputy Vice President of Government Affairs
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Blog Post Worth More Than a Thousand Words How taking pictures of wildlife could help bears and elk — and people — survive outside Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Press Release EPA Finalizes Rules to Reduce Methane Pollution The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized rules to reduce methane pollution. The rules will help protect air in our national parks and curb climate change.
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Magazine Article 'Peace, Life & Tingly Happiness' Photographer Matt Brass and filmmaker Jesse Brass carefully planned a visit to South Dakota to shoot Badlands National Park. A winter storm changed everything.
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Press Release Groups Challenge Decision to Remove Protections for Yellowstone Grizzly Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bear delisting defies the best available science and sidesteps important legal safeguards
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Press Release Victory: 9th Circuit Upholds Endangered Species Protections for Yellowstone Grizzlies Court of appeals sends U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service back to the drawing board to protect Yellowstone and Grand Teton grizzly bears
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Magazine Article A Rebellion Reappraised A new plaque at Virgin Islands National Park will commemorate a revolt that nearly succeeded in upending St. John’s slaveholding establishment.
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Magazine Article A Mammoth Homecoming A restored 170-year-old stagecoach returns to Kentucky’s only national park.
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Magazine Article Silversword Fight In Haleakalā National Park, a charismatic plant battles for survival.
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Press Release Colorado River Rushes Through the Grand Canyon High flow release is welcomed as significant for Grand Canyon National Park resources
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Press Release Federal Licensing Board Hearing to Discuss Threats from Florida Power and Light’s Proposed Nuclear Expansion at Turkey Point in Biscayne Bay Local groups and concerned citizens continue to challenge federal licensing with future of nearby national parks and region’s drinking water supply at risk.
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Resource The Jamaica Bay Database Initiative The Jamaica Bay Database Initiative is a project undertaken by the National Parks Conservation Association Northeast Regional Office. The primary goal of the project is to facilitate science-based decision-making for Jamaica Bay, New York City, by making existing environmental data more easily accessible for the purpose of conservation.
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Video Join Us Our national parks preserve some of the most inspiring places and stories. These places belong to us all. They deserve to be celebrated and protected. It’s up to us to ensure that America’s favorite places have clean water, clear air and healthy wildlife.
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Staff Erika Pelletier Erika is the Associate Director of the Texas and Oklahoma Regional Office. Erika works to support the 18 national parks in Texas and Oklahoma and their communities.
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Park North Country National Scenic Trail When this trail is officially complete, it will be the longest point-to-point footpath in the National Park System.
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Report Pullman Transportation Plan As one of America’s newest national parks, Pullman National Monument is preparing for as many as 300,000 visitors by 2020. The Pullman Transportation Plan, produced with funding secured by NPCA, outlines ways to improve access to and within Pullman for visitors and community residents.
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Michelle (Meech) Carter Originally from a rural town near San Diego, Meech (she/her) moved to Durham, North Carolina three years ago to pursue her passion of environmental advocacy.
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