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Video Find Your Voice: Biscayne National Park National Parks belong to you. See how a group of young advocates in Miami learned how to explore, protect, and advocate for their park as a part of the National Parks Conservation Association’s Find Your Voice initiative.
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Video NPCA & The Mission Continues Join Together to Protect Our Parks NPCA has been working with veterans organizations across the country to provide experiences and opportunities for our vets to enjoy and support national parks in their communities, and to speak up on behalf of these important places. One of those organizations is The Mission Continues, with which NPCA have worked with on projects benefiting parks and communities across the country. In February 2018, NPCA and The Mission Continues worked together on a park restoration project in South Florida.
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Video Celebrating You and Our Love of National Parks Last week we celebrated National Park Week and the important role these special places have in our lives. Today, I want to send a message to those who make help make sure there are parks to celebrate ─ you.
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Ravee Mata Ravee Mata was born and raised in San Antonio, TX and joined NPCA Young Leaders Advocacy Council in 2023.
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Adam Mann Adam was born in Flagstaff, Arizona, but grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he explored many of the state's parks and natural areas.
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Blog Post Her True Colors: A Q&A with Award-Winning Musician Doreen Taylor Last week, award-winning songstress Doreen Taylor released her new single, “Colors of the USA,” which she wrote and produced to benefit NPCA's work to protect national parks; 50% of all proceeds from the song will go directly to NPCA.
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Press Release Bright Future for Pullman with New Superintendent Named to Lead National Monument New superintendent will be a great asset to Chicago's first national park.
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Press Release Feds Reverse Course on Desert Water Mining Scheme Department of Interior reversed course on previous rulings and took steps to approve a dangerous groundwater mining proposal, which threatens Mojave National Preserve - the third largest national park site in the lower 48 states.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 823 & H.R. 1708 NPCA submitted the following position to the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands ahead of a hearing scheduled for April 2, 2019.
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Blog Post Telling the Frontier Story with a Community Perspective at Fort Union Fort Union National Monumentin New Mexico is a small unit of the National Park System that tells a big story, much different from the typical soldiers-and-Indians narrative one might expect at a frontier fort.
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Spotlight Harriet Tubman's Story How climate change is affecting the legacy of Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad and a national park’s landscape on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
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Report NPCA 2019 Annual Report The Path Forward: 100 Years of Protecting America’s Parks
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Blog Post A Galaxy Not So Far Away After All Two national parks in California literally portrayed a galaxy far, far away in the original 1977 Star Wars film and the 1983 sequel, Return of the Jedi.
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Press Release Eliminating Species Act: Congress Threatens Wildlife and Wild Lands Legislation threatens the long-term conservation of American wildlife and wild lands, and the national parks that call them home.
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Blog Post Walking to Protect Glacier's Water Pauline Matt dreamed that the water was dying and that she had the power to stop it. Her dream was not far from the truth, with fracking arriving on the Blackfeet Indian Nation and adjacent to Glacier National Park in Montana. Instead of allowing the dream to paralyze her, she kept herself moving—literally—by organizing the six-day, 80-mile Chief Mountain Water Walk to help focus the eyes of the nation on this corner of Montana.
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Blog Post Miami Students Celebrate the First Annual Everglades Day with Fishing and Fun Known for its nightlife, delicious food, and incredible beaches, Miami-Dade County is home to more than 2.5 million people. One of the area’s defining features is the fact that it is bound by two national parks, Biscayne to the east and the Everglades to the west.
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Press Release Groups Hail Legislation to Preserve Nationally Treasured Women's History Site Senator Mikulski introduces bill to include Sewall-Belmont House in National Park System
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Blog Post A More Complete Story at Gettysburg Marking the 160th anniversary of the Civil War’s bloodiest battle, Gettysburg National Military Park has expanded its historical interpretation. Visitors now can learn more about the history of free and enslaved Blacks and the context of Confederate monuments.
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Blog Post Speaking Out A current Park Service employee shares their concerns about the removal of sexual orientation from workplace protections for Interior Department staff.
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Magazine Article Home of the Brave Boston’s national parks lead visitors back in time to our nation’s beginnings.
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Press Release Photo Exhibit at U.S. Capitol Celebrates Nevada’s Public Lands Exhibit Organized by National Parks Conservation Association
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Blog Post Reflections on Birmingham, Site of America’s Newest National Monument Birmingham was once the nation’s most segregated city, home to brutal, racially motivated violence. Today, a new national park site commemorates the critical civil rights history that happened here.
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Magazine Article Battling History Manuel Chaves was a Civil War hero. He also murdered and enslaved Native Americans. How should we remember him?
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Press Release Army Corps Backtracks on Clean Water Act Protections for Big Cypress National Preserve The National Parks Conservation Association joins fellow environmental advocates in expressing concern over this unsubstantiated flip-flop and calling for answers to many questions that the Army Corps’ reversal letter has raised.
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Press Release Amache National Historic Site Act Passes Senate Committee, Heads To Full Senate Consideration Japanese American survivors and descendants of the Amache Incarceration site are one step closer today to preserving the area into a national park site.
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Blog Post Going Caveman in Grants Pass NPCA's traveling park lover visits a rare marble cave system in the Pacific Northwest, only to be reunited with an amusing character from his past.
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Press Release Trump Administration Signs Executive Orders to Fast Track Energy Infrastructure Permitting Pipelines proposed near national parks would face less scrutiny under these new executive orders.
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Press Release Interior Department Order Supports More Room for Wildlife to Roam $2 million investment could advance collaborative corridor conservation and restoration efforts for national park wildlife across the west, including pronghorn antelope that migrate to and from Grand Teton and Yellowstone.
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Magazine Article In Black and White A new exhibition documents Ansel Adams’ abiding passion for the national parks.
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Blog Post New Series Spotlights Veterans with a Passion for Yoga Videos feature yoga instructors who have served in our armed forces, filmed at some of our most beautiful parks.
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Magazine Article Cracking the Nut The American chestnut almost was wiped out in the 20th century. Can scientists and the Park Service bring back this iconic tree?
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Press Release Feds Pump the Brakes on Desert Water Mining Scheme Statement by David Lamfrom, Director, California Desert and Wildlife Program, National Parks Conservation Association
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Press Release Historic World War II Hangars to be Restored at Gateway National Recreation Area Statement by Alexander Brash, Northeast Senior Regional Director for the National Parks Conservation Association
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Magazine Article My Maine A Maine native reflects on the state’s new national park.
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Blog Post 5 Reasons to Celebrate Today’s New National Monuments in the California Desert These new parks will preserve 1.8 million acres in one of the largest and most diverse protected areas of desert lands in the world.
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Press Release NPCA Applauds Public Lands Plan to Balance Conservation, Development and Recreation “As the climate crisis changes our parks and landscapes, land managers must also adjust how they work together to protect and connect wildlife and ecosystems” – NPCA’s Senior VP of Government Affairs Kristen Brengel
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Video Hear Our Olympics Come explore the incredible soundscape of Olympic National Park in our new short film.
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Staff Tim Koenning Tim is the Hamill Calumet Conservation Senior Coordinator in NPCA's Midwest office in Chicago. Tim cooperates with NPCA's partners in the Calumet region of Northwest Indiana and Chicago to protect and restore Indiana Dunes National Park, Pullman National Monument, and the natural areas in between.
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Ayomide Sekiteri Ayomide Sekiteri is a member of NPCA’s Next Generation Advisory Council and Mid-Atlantic Regional Council. She is a first-generation Nigerian-American from Baltimore, MD.
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Alfonso Orozco Alfonso Orozco is the National Programs Coordinator for the Student Conservation Association. He is originally from Oakland, CA.
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