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Park Theodore Roosevelt National Park Long before Theodore Roosevelt became America’s 26th president, he spent years as a rancher in the rugged lands preserved by this national park.
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Park Wolf Trap National Park for The Performing Arts This unique performance space is the only U.S. national park devoted to the performing arts. Managed through a public-private partnership, the arts center hosts a wide variety of entertainment each year, from pop singers to elaborate dance troupes to comedians. It features three separate performance venues — a large amphitheater, a smaller performance space and a Theatre-in-the-Woods especially for children — as well as walking trails and picnic spots to explore before or after the show.
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Park Vicksburg National Military Park More than 100,000 troops waged battle on this Civil War site from March 29 until July 4, 1863 in a campaign that proved crucial to the Union victory. High atop the Mississippi River, Jefferson Davis referred to Vicksburg as “the nail head that held the South’s two halves together.” After a 41-day siege and Confederate surrender at Vicksburg, the town would not celebrate the Fourth of July for 81 years. Today, the park includes a 16-mile auto tour around the battlefield, the restored ironclad ship USS Cairo, and Vicksburg National Cemetery, the final resting place of 17,000 Civil War soldiers.
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Report Sourcebook for National Park Gateway Communities: Delaware River Preserving community character, promoting park and community health, and stimulating local economies
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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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Letter NPCA Letter on National Capital Region Fees for Demonstrations The National Park Service has proposed a variety of changes for special events and demonstrations in and around Washington, D.C., such as modifying and establishing restricted areas at memorials, establishing a maximum permit length of 30 days, and expanding the number of areas where a permit isn’t necessary for demonstrations. The most controversial change is floating the idea of recovering some of the costs for demonstrated events.
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Press Release Key Stakeholders Endorse Presidio Exchange but Urge Trust Board to Delay Crissy Field Development Decision Lucas Museum proposal rejected as wholly inappropriate for and unrelated to prized national park land
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Blog Post Responsible Solar Power Location, location, location. These simple but wise words apply to homebuyers and business owners alike. They also apply to energy developers—some places just are not suitable for industrial-scale projects, including lands adjacent to our national parks.
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Press Release New Legislation Brings Proposed Chesapeake National Recreation Area One Step Closer to Reality Working together to create a Chesapeake National Recreation Area would expand public access to the largest estuary in the nation, bring economic growth to nearby communities, and help the National Park Service, native Tribes, and Chesapeake watermen interpret thousands of years of impactful history.
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Blog Post The Public Promise Waiting to be Kept “The best ships in the worst navy”—that’s how one NPS staffer responded when asked to describe history in the National Park Service.
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Blog Post Coming Full Circle at the Great Lakes As a young Native American, NPCA staffer Kira Davis journeyed across the U.S. to reconnect with her culture and recognize her heart’s calling. National parks held the loving space in which she could grow.
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Blog Post Wilderness Wins on the West Coast Thanks to persistent support from thousands of advocates, the National Park Service will honor its promise to Americans to preserve Drakes Estero.
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Blog Post Fixing Our Heritage Veterans from around the country flew to Washington, D.C., this week to defend our national parks and address their $11.3 billion maintenance backlog
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Blog Post 'The Struggle of a Lifetime' Congressman John Lewis dedicated his life to the fight for justice and civil rights — and today we also remember him as a stalwart champion of America's national parks.
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Press Release NPCA Statement on the BLM Natural Gas Waste Rule Statement by Nick Lund, senior manager for conservation programs for National Parks Conservation Association:
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Magazine Article Garbage In, Garbage Out Volunteers and rangers removed more than 22,000 pounds of debris from Alaska’s national park beaches. But will the trash just come back?
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Press Release New Legislation Would Protect More Lands, Provide More Access to Katahdin Woods and Waters "Expanding this extraordinary park site will increase recreational access and help protect more forests, wildlife and waterways." - Tucker Johnson, NPCA's Visitor Experience Program Manager
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 820, H.R. 920, H.R. 2497, and H.R. 2626 NPCA submitted the following positions to the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands ahead of a legislative hearing scheduled for April 21st, 2021.
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Magazine Article A Mystery in Death Valley Fifty years ago, rangers in a California national park helped apprehend a band of hippie outlaws hiding out in the desert. Weeks later, they learned how big of a catch it was.
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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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Magazine Article Small Plastic, Big Problem Plastic is polluting oceans and national park beaches alike, and new studies show that even the tiniest pieces pose a large threat.
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Press Release Statement on the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan Statement by Mark Wenzler, Senior Vice President of Conservation Programs for the National Parks Conservation Association
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Press Release Draft Plan Lays Groundwork for Renewable Energy Development in the California Desert Elected Officials, Business Owners, National Parks Group Call for More Thoughtful Planning, Public Involvement to Ensure a Conservation Legacy for the Region
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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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Press Release Entergy Arkansas Reaches Settlement with Environmental Groups to Cease Burning Coal Today’s agreement secures important reductions in air pollution that has harmed national parks and communities across the region for decades.
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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 Yellowstone: Assessment Identifies 7 Priority Opportunities to Reduce Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions “The assessment lays exciting groundwork for establishing wildlife connectivity and ensuring pronghorn and other animals safely reach critical wintering grounds outside of Yellowstone National Park" - NPCA Volgenau Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Fellow Pat Todd
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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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Press Release Interior Department Announces Historic Bison Restoration Efforts Through New Secretarial Order and Funding “Restoring the American bison to federal and Tribal lands can serve as a crucial tool to protect and preserve national park landscapes for future generations.” – Bart Melton, NPCA’s Wildlife Program Senior Director
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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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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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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 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 Partners Help to Build the Next Generation of Stewards Youth Summit helps build new leadership for national parks and other public lands.
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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 Night and Day After 30 years of intense habitat restoration on the Channel Islands, the island night lizard might be ready to come off the endangered species list.
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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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Resource TFP Travel and Events Check out the special trips and events we have planned especially for our Trustees for the Parks!
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Report Making Connections: Roots of Prosperity in New York and Pennsylvania’s Upper Delaware River Region In October 2018, National Parks Conservation Association and partners released a new report to highlight stories from the emerging economy in the Upper Delaware River region, an area in Pennsylvania and New York stretching from Hancock, NY downstream to Port Jervis, and anchored by the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River (S&RR).
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Park Tule Lake National Monument Tule Lake is one of four incarceration camps in the National Park System that the federal government used during World War II to imprison people in the name of military defense. The military overwhelmingly used this power against Japanese and Japanese Americans for having what it called “foreign enemy ancestry.”
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Park Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site The Vanderbilt Mansion is a American expression and celebration of the era of the English country house estate. These grand estates thrived in the United States after post-Civil War industrialization, in the early 1900s through the 1930s. As a visitor you can tour the historic home or explore the estate grounds, open from dawn through dusk.
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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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Jasmine Lopez Jasmine is an undergraduate student at the University of Texas at San Antonio studying for her bachelor’s degree in anthropology with an emphasis in archaeological practice.
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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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