Search results for “Saratoga National Historical Park”
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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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Resource Map of Pebble Mine The Pebble Mine proposal includes a road that cuts between Katmai and Lake Clark National Parks and Preserves.
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Monique Byro Monique Byro is a Panamanian-Jamaican first generation naturalist from Miami, Florida who advocates for diversity in the outdoors regularly through her work. With multiple degrees from the University of Florida, she specializes in community engagement and volunteerism in the National Park Service while emphasizing inclusion outdoors.
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Blog Post 5 Ways to Chase Awe at Muir Woods National Monument Encountering some of Earth's tallest living organisms is just the beginning of visitors' experience at this California park site.
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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 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 Leasing Our Legacy: Lands Near Hovenweep National Monument Sold to Oil and Gas Bidders In its latest step towards 'energy dominance' at the sacrifice of national parks and other public lands, the Trump Administration advanced more than 30,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Southeast Utah today.
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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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Blog Post Protecting the Wilderness at Drakes Estero Americans are captivated by wilderness; it comes in all shapes and sizes, from the forested Olympic National Park to the river of grass in the Everglades. Thanks to U.S. Secretary Ken Salazar, Americans can now experience the majestic beauty of the first marine wilderness area on the West Coast: Drakes Estero, in Point Reyes National Seashore.
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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 My Maine A Maine native reflects on the state’s new national park.
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Blog Post Where Are You Headed This Travel Season? Do you have a favorite national park vacation spot you love returning to each year? Are you finally getting to visit some of the places on your bucket list? We’d love to hear where your wanderlust is leading you this travel season — or where you’re dreaming of going next.
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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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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 State Senate Deserts California Desert, Endangers Mojave Trails National Monument Today, the California Senate Appropriations Committee refused to consider and vote on AB1000, the California Desert Protection Act. Authored by Assemblymember Laura Friedman, the legislation aimed to safeguard groundwater in California's Mojave Desert that sustains wildlife and parks including Mojave Trails National Monument and Mojave National Preserve and wildlife.
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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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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 Groups Urge AZ Governor to Close Uranium Mine in Newly Designated Grand Canyon National Monument The mine, which began extracting uranium ore on January 8, is 7 miles south of Grand Canyon National Park and inside the newly designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.
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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 A Rising Star Could the Lone Star Coastal National Recreation Area become the country’s next park unit?
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Magazine Article Home, Home on the ‘Āina Decades before the cattle drives that established the cowboy as an icon of the American West, Hawaii developed a ranching culture of its own. Is it time for a national park site dedicated to paniolo?
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 2546 & H.R. 2642 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands ahead of a hearing scheduled for July 10, 2019.
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Blog Post Happy Anniversary to a Hidden Gem 4 of my favorite spots in the vast, uncrowded park you’ve probably never heard of — but should.
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Press Release NPCA Applauds Landmark Investment to Reduce Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions “This landmark investment opens new opportunities for wildlife, park visitors, and communities to co-exist and thrive" -- NPCA's Senior Wildlife Program Director Bart Melton
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Magazine Article Labor of Love New California park site dedicated to the work of labor leader César Chávez.
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Blog Post New Report: Air Quality in the Smokies Is Headed in the Right Direction A new report from Colorado State University confirms that air quality in our most-visited national park is measurably better, thanks to the Clean Air Act.
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Magazine Article Welcome to the Family! Three new parks joined the system this fall.
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Press Release Bipartisan Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act of 2019 Introduced Following UN Report on Global Biodiversity Crisis Bipartisan House and Senate legislation could benefit wildlife that travel beyond park boundaries, such as Los Angeles mountain lions in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
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Blog Post A Little-Known Piece of History Reclaimed Many Americans will recognize this coming Monday, October 13, as a holiday honoring Christopher Columbus. Thanks to NPCA supporters, the citizens of Florida will also take this day to recognize an unsung hero who made one of our national parks possible: Lancelot Jones.
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Blog Post NPCA’s Work Culture, Values Prove Award-Winning NPCA’s workplace culture is a key to our success, not only as we advance our park protection campaigns, but as we invest in and grow our people. We have six awards to prove it.
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Magazine Article An Alabama Album Images of struggle and persistence at five national park sites.
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Blog Post The Folly and the Ivy At the peak of the fall season, the trees along the George Washington Memorial Parkway are alive with color. This scenic roadway is one of the most-visited parts of the National Park System, and an autumn drive along this stretch of the Potomac River in the Mid-Atlantic is a joy for tourists and locals alike. Sycamores and tulip trees, dogwoods and maples—these Virginia hardwoods greet visitors with a dazzling display of scarlet and gold.
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Press Release In a Final Move, Obama Calls for Diversity Among Federal Land Management Workforce Parks group challenges new administration to make recommendations a reality
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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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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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Blake Borwig Blake Borwig is an Environmental Scientist for the Kentucky Division for Air Quality, within the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection. He is also pursuing a masters degree in Applied Environmental and Sustainability Studies at the University of Kentucky.
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Kayuri Bhimani Kayuri Bhimani is a Senior Investment Associate with Blue Haven Initiative, an organization operating at the intersection of climate action, emerging markets, and impact.
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Staff Timothy Leonard Timothy is program manager of NPCA’s northeast outreach and engagement initiatives.
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Nick Maya Nick Maya works for the Center for Natural Resources & Environmental Policy at the University of Montana, where he supports and helps coordinate many of the Center’s projects. He also serves as an instructor for Practicum, the capstone course of the Center’s Natural Resources Conflict Resolution graduate certificate program.
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