Search results for “Point Reyes National Seashore”
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Blog Post From the Mountaintop A historic African American climbing team tackles the largest peak in North America to inspire youth.
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Magazine Article A Front-Row Seat A naturalist watches as seals return to Cape Cod National Seashore—and marvels at the human response.
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Magazine Article Deep Listening How can the world’s largest collection of underwater sound recordings help scientists understand sea creatures and the noise pollution that may be killing them?
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Press Release Trump Administration Delays Offshore Drilling Plan, Temporarily Protecting National Parks from Spills 68 coastal national parks could be susceptible to oil spills as a result of offshore drilling.
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Policy Update Position on the National Environmental Policy Act NPCA submitted the following position to the House Committee on Natural Resources ahead of a hearing scheduled for April 25, 2018.
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Magazine Article Between a (Kindness) Rock and a Hard Place People leave behind painted rocks to brighten strangers’ days, but in national parks they’re fueling controversy and less-than-civil debate.
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Magazine Article Reporting for Duty The Park Service shuttered its Morning Report in 2015 after a 30-year run, but the longtime editor has a few more things to say.
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Magazine Article The Trouble With Bats A decade after the emergence of white-nose syndrome, bats in national parks and around the country continue to die. Can researchers save them before it's too late?
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Blog Post An Insiders’ Guide to Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone: It’s one of the most remarkable and revered travel destinations in the world and the place that defined the very concept of public land conservation. Get a taste of why this park and the larger ecosystem that surrounds it are so special — and how to plan an extraordinary trip.
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Blog Post "Keys to Freeze": 6 Friends to Cycle Cross-Continent for a Cause Next month, six cyclists will begin the adventure of a lifetime when they launch “Keys to Freeze,” a six-month, 9,000-mile journey from Key West, Florida, to Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s northern coast.
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Magazine Article Death Valley Angst On a desert hike, a father and his teenage daughter contemplate canyons, cliffs and the heartache that comes with growing up.
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Magazine Article Exposed Climate change reveals — and threatens — artifacts along Alaska’s famed Chilkoot Trail.
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Magazine Article Gift of the Glaciers Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore offers visitors beaches, bluffs, clear waters, and 10,000-year-old hills of sand.
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Press Release Puget Sound Oil Refinery Permitted to Harm National Park Air Quality The refinery expansion will go ahead without stringent pollutant controls to protect Washington's parks
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Magazine Article What is going to happen to national parks in the next century? We asked a handful of writers, activists, scholars and conservationists about their hopes, dreams and fears about the National Park System. Here’s what they had to say.
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Magazine Article Saving the Panther The Florida panther was going to die out. Then conservationists dreamed up a daring rescue operation.
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Blog Post How National Parks Led Me to My U.S. Citizenship Public lands belong to all of us. Sometimes, they help us realize that we belong to them, too.
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Spreadsheet Top 50 Worst Regional Haze Polluters While most haze pollution does not originate in national parks, it can travel hundreds of miles from its source – coal plants, vehicles and oil and gas operations are the main culprits– harming the air we breathe, and the health of park visitors, wildlife and nearby communities.
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Magazine Article Untold Stories The Park Service strives to tell the history of all Americans, but one group has gone almost entirely overlooked.
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Magazine Article Into The Wind At Padre Island National Seashore, not even a gale can ruin your trip.
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Magazine Article Landscape Poetry Artist Tom Killion has spent more than 40 years translating his love of the natural world into intricate, Japanese-style prints.
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Blog Post Plan a Desert Getaway to Bryce Canyon National Park What do these things have in common: Fairyland, Peek-A-Boo, Queens Garden, and Hat Shop? They are all names of fun trails to hike at Bryce Canyon National Park.
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Blog Post In Baltimore, the Red and the Blue Wave Together as One The flag at Fort McHenry reminds us what America stands for and how our nation has endured through decades of challenges.
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Blog Post 5 Reasons the EPA’s New ‘Roadmap’ Could Harm Parks Rolling back clean air protections would be bad for human health and the environment.
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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 National Park Rangers Are Helping These 10 Animals and Plants Survive National parks offer some of the last suitable habitats for a number of species and are home to creatures that exist nowhere else in the world. This means park staff play a key role in saving some of the rarest animals and plants from being lost forever.
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Magazine Article Mission Outdoors Sierra Club program provides healing and camaraderie for war veterans.
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Blog Post Objects at Hand: 10 Curious Park Artifacts The National Park Service manages one of the largest museum systems in North America, preserving more than 45 million artifacts, from the artful to the odd.
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Press Release Offshore Leasing Plan Threatens National Parks, Wildlife and Coastal Communities Atlantic, Pacific coasts could be open to leasing for first time in decades.
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Magazine Article What Are Your Dangerous Ideas? At a Rhode Island national park site, visitors share their dangerous ideas.
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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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Resource Glossary of Unbearable Terms Maps and illustrations showing Alaska's War on Wolves and Bears.
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Report Letter Asking the Trump Administration to Withdraw Its WOTUS Proposal Join United by Blue, National Parks Conservation Association, American Sustainable Business Council and Environment America and our growing coalition on this letter opposing changes to the Waters of the U.S. rule.
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Resource The Art and Science of Camera Trapping The rise of camera trapping has allowed a growing number of volunteers to make significant contributions to academic research. Here’s a look at the practice, how these devices are used, and ways to get your own glimpses at wildlife “selfies” and help with ongoing research.
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Resource Next Generation Advisory Council Call for Participants Looking for an opportunity to make a difference and bring a unique perspective to efforts to protect our public lands? Want to become more engaged in civic processes and environmental issues in your community? Love our national parks? The Next Generation Advisory Council of the National Parks Conservation Association may be the place for you. We are now accepting applications to the council for the 2023-2025 cohort.
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