Search results for “North Cascades National Park”
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NPCA at Work An Oil Refinery Has No Place Next to Theodore Roosevelt National Park Protect the iconic North Dakota badlands from an ill-conceived facility that would pollute the air
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Report Center for State of the Parks: Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park In this report, the National Parks Conservation Association describes many threats that face Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park through an assessment conducted by the State of the Parks program.
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Report Center for State of the Parks: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park This report summarizes findings from an assessment by the State of the Parks program to describe the current condition of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park’s resources and the stewardship challenges ahead.
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Park Canyonlands National Park Canyonlands National Park preserves an immense desert wilderness sculpted by the Green and Colorado rivers and featuring hundreds of colorful canyons, mesas, buttes, fins, arches and spires. The Island in the Sky District is the most accessible and popular section of the park — a mesa with spectacular views of the surrounding canyons. The Needles is a vaster territory below the Island in the Sky where visitors can hike among the sandstone spires and breathtaking rocks.
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Park Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park This park presents a thorough portrait of the strong-willed Texan who served in both houses of Congress before leading the country as president. This park encompasses the Hill Country home site that has been in the Johnson family since the 1860s as well as the ranch where the president is buried. Learn about President Johnson’s controversial role in escalating the Vietnam War and his celebrated “Great Society” legislation which expanded civil rights protections, national health care, and environmental laws. See his childhood bed, his clothes, his collection of rare automobiles, the one-room school he attended, and a wealth of other historic items.
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Park Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park celebrates the ingenuity of the people who lived alongside migratory birds, green sea turtles, and monk seals on the lavabeds of the western shore of Hawai'i.
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Report Center for State of the Parks: Zion National Park Current overall conditions of Zion’s known natural resources rated a “good” score of 82 out of 100.
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Blog Post Trivia Challenge: The Most Celebrated People in the Park System Q: National parks don’t just preserve spectacular landscapes and wildlife. They also honor the people who have changed history and influenced American culture, from the Wright brothers to Harriet Tubman to Eugene O’Neill. Two noteworthy people have more national park sites named after them than anyone else, with four sites each. Can you name these two celebrated historic figures?
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Blog Post 10 National Park Cameos in Movies Check out — or revisit — these 10 films where parks played a starring role.
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Blog Post Commemorating Yellowstone's 150th Birthday with the Park's 'First Family' The world's first national park marks a significant milestone today — but its history reaches much further back than 1872 and involves the stories and cultures of more than two dozen Tribes.
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Blog Post One-of-a-Kind Destinations: 11 National Park Curiosities National parks preserve wondrous landscapes, stories, and artifacts—as well as a whole host of weird and exceptional sights. From wacky-looking rocks to giant monuments of steel, here’s a short list of places to explore that are like nowhere else in the world.
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Blog Post 10 Owls to Look (and Listen) for in National Parks Owls make their homes in many national parks around the country, though they can be tricky to spot. Here are a few profiles of these elusive birds, which have been both revered and feared throughout human history.
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Blog Post 8 Park Bills Congress Should Pass EDITOR’S NOTE: Five of these bills received congressional approval on Dec. 23, 2022, at the end of the 117th Congress. Read below for updates. NPCA is pushing to get national park bills through Congress this year. Here’s a list of some of the bills that have received bipartisan support — and we hope can get across the finish line.
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Blog Post 9 Parks That Tell the Story of Slavery and Abolition On June 19, the nation commemorates the end of institutional slavery in the U.S. These national parks are part of that long journey to freedom.
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Blog Post 10 Scenic National Park Drives These 10 parks offer incredible views of some of America's most beautiful places with plenty of opportunities to get out and explore along the way.
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Press Release House Advances Landmark bill to Protect More than 2 Million Acres of National Parks and Public Lands Today marks a great day in history for our national parks and public lands.
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Blog Post On the Edge: Fracking and the Fate of Theodore Roosevelt National Park Craning my neck through the car window, my first impressions of Theodore Roosevelt National Park were hills, extending for miles under a stretch of blue skies and distant clouds. The heat was overwhelming, but the enigmatic new landscape had sparked my 11-year-old curiosity, and I stuck my nose to the window in eager anticipation.
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Blog Post 5 Ways to Celebrate Veterans Day — Free — at a National Park Why not take the next fee-free day throughout the National Park System to learn more about America's military history?
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Blog Post National Park-Related Recipes to Brighten Your Holidays What better way to celebrate the holidays than with food and drink! Here are 7 recipes with historical connections, shared online by national park sites.
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Blog Post 3 Songwriters, 3 Inspiring National Parks Listen to three up-and-coming songwriters perform amid nature on acoustic guitar — in the very national parks that inspired their work.
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Blog Post What We Stand to Lose at Glacier National Park Climate change is affecting more than just the glaciers: perspectives from a 50-year park veteran.
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Press Release National Parks Group Honors South East Utah Superintendent with Stephen T. Mather Award Award given to individuals who have shown steadfast leadership and persistent dedication to our national parks
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Press Release Former National Park Superintendents Call for Waterton-Glacier Expansion, Watershed Protections As Congress considers lands bill, veteran park leadership makes conservation appeal
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Blog Post Tuzi ... What? The Origins of 12 Unusual National Park Names Tuzigoot. Great Egg Harbor. Yosemite. Who came up with these names? What do they mean? Sometimes they come from one person, sometimes a whole culture—but the stories behind these memorable monikers reveal interesting details about these places and the people who have loved and lived in them.
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Magazine Article Park Ink This niche community is obsessed with national parks, and these folks have the stamps to prove it.
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Press Release President's Budget Calls for Historic Investment in National Parks in Advance of 2016 Centennial President's Budget Calls for Historic Investment in National Parks in Advance of 2016 Centennial
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Blog Post 9 Features You May Not Know About at Indiana Dunes National Park Get a taste of wilderness remarkably close to Chicago and other urban centers at Indiana Dunes National Park, which NPCA has been helping to preserve and enhance.
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Press Release New Poll of Likely Voters Finds Unity in Public Support for National Parks Strong bipartisan support for park funding
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Blog Post Congress: Keep Our National Parks Open One beloved national park is already closing facilities in reaction to budget cuts.
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Press Release Made in America: New Report Finds National Parks at a Tipping Point Leading Into Super Committee Deadline National Parks Group Urges the Need for Wise Investments to Support Jobs and Communities Nationwide
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Press Release House Moves to Encourage Drilling in National Parks Reversal of drilling rules part of larger attempt by Congress to weaken park protections.
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Press Release Jackson Hole Airport Decision Extends Lease within Grand Teton National Park Until 2053 Critical that NPS assess significant impacts of an airport within a national park
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Press Release National Parks Group to Honor Champions on Capitol Hill National Parks Conservation Association Recognizes Bipartisan Senators and Representatives with Heritage Award
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Blog Post Supermoms and Slacker Moms of the National Parks From moms who give their lives for their children to those who decide their offspring are not even worth raising, the maternal instincts of wildlife in our national parks and marine national monuments are as wildly diverse as the places themselves.
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Press Release New Plan for Pennsylvania Turnpike Stormwater Runoff Will Better Protect Valley Forge National Historical Park “Now every drop of stormwater that flows off this expanded six-mile stretch of the turnpike will be cooled and cleaned before gradually entering Valley Forge National Historical Park and Valley Creek" -- NPCA's Joy Oakes.
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Blog Post The Most-Visited National Park Site in Alaska Summer is the traditional tourist season in Alaska. One national park site in the state attracts far more recreational visitors than any other. Can you guess which one?
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Press Release Badger-Two Medicine Area Too Special to Drill: National Parks Group Agrees with Federal Historic Preservation Panel Statement by Michael Jamison, Glacier Program Manager for the National Parks Conservation Association
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Victory A National Park for Stonewall On June 24, 2016, President Obama designated Stonewall National Monument, America’s first national park site dedicated to LGBT history.
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NPCA at Work More Clean Water Protections for People and Parks Clean water is a basic need. With two-thirds of national park waters impaired and many communities living with unsafe drinking water, we need more protections for our waterways, not less.
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Report Center for State of the Parks: Longfellow National Historic Site The current overall condition of cultural resources at Longfellow National Historic Site rated a “fair” score of 72 out of 100. The park’s ability to care for its resources, also known as its stewardship capacity, rated a “fair” score of 74 out of 100.
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Park Lake Chelan National Recreation Area Tucked among the many lakes of the North Cascade National Park, Lake Chelan is so remote that the far Northwest end is only accessible by boat, float plane, or trail. The beautiful lake, surrounded by the North Cascade Range, is the third deepest in the country.
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Erin Mezgar Erin Mezgar serves as the Associate Director of the Trustees for the Parks program.
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Report Making Connections: Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area As Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area begins its sixth decade as part of America’s National Park System, this report assesses the national park’s economic benefits and its value to the broader region. It also identifies challenges and opportunities to sustain and enhance its significance.
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Victory Protections Restored for Our National Monuments NPCA, along with our more than 1.6 million members and supporters and park advocates across the country spoke out and fought tirelessly to protect all that Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments and the surrounding national parks hold. Our voices were heard.
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Ren and Helen Davis REN AND HELEN DAVIS are the authors of numerous books including Our Mark on This Land: A Guide to the Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps in America’s Parks and Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery: An Illustrated History and Guide. This essay was adapted from their new book, Landscapes for the People: George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the National Park Service, published by University of Georgia Press.
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Victory Wolves at Isle Royale Isle Royale National Park in Michigan is a wild, remote island in Lake Superior that serves as a natural refuge for wildlife, including its most famous residents: wolves and moose. Ninety-nine percent of Isle Royale is designated as a federal wilderness area and as the island’s top predator, wolves are essential to controlling the island’s moose population.
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LeAaron Foley As Senior Outreach Coordinator for the Midwest Regional Office, Lee worked on developing relationships with community, civic, and business partners in many of this region's great national parks.
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Park Lincoln Memorial National Memorial This famous monument in Washington, D.C., honors the Great Emancipator, 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, with a 19-foot marble statue under a 99-foot-tall structure modeled after the Greek Parthenon. Completed in 1922, this monument is one of the most-visited national park sites in the country, and includes murals, inscriptions from two of Lincoln’s speeches, and fluted Doric columns representing the 36 states in the union at the time of his death.
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Kristin Murphy Kristin Murphy was an Outreach Fellow for NPCA's Find Your Voice initiative empowering young people to protect national parks.
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Tatiana Orlov Tatiana comes to NPCA with over a decade of community engagement, advocacy, and program management experience in food and environmental justice.
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