Search results for “Gettysburg National Military Park”
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Magazine Article A River Spectacle Endangered mussels live on (and on) in the St. Croix.
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Policy Update NPCA Position on H.R. 3540, H.R. 4677, & H.R. 5973 NPCA sent the following letter to members of the relevant committee ahead of a legislative markup held by the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife scheduled for January 20, 2022.
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Policy Update NPCA Position on H.R. 3540, H.R. 4677, & H.R. 5973 NPCA shared positions on H.R. 3540, H.R. 4677, and H.R. 5973 ahead of a legislative markup held by the House Natural Resources Committee scheduled for February 16, 2022.
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Blog Post Celebrating the 'Book Man' of Washington, D.C. The pioneering educator Carter G. Woodson founded the precursor to Black History Month in 1926. Though temporarily closed for renovations, the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site is scheduled to reopen later this year.
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Magazine Article The Long Way The 4,600-mile North Country Trail has been painstakingly constructed by a devoted group of supporters over four decades. It’s only two-thirds done and largely unknown, but step by step that is changing.
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Magazine Article Accidental Hero Crispus Attucks is believed to be the first casualty of the American Revolution, but 250 years later, it’s still difficult to untangle fact from myth.
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Blog Post Reflecting on Selma, 50 Years Later On March 7, 1965, courage and villainy collided on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, when John Lewis and more than 500 other peaceful protesters marched for their constitutional right to vote.
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Policy Update Position on S. 34, Midnight Rules Relief Act NPCA submitted the following position to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security ahead of a business meeting on May 17, 2017.
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Blog Post Fifty Years Later: Wilderness & Civil Rights in the Same Breath This summer marks the 50-year anniversary of two landmark pieces of legislation—the Civil Rights Act and the Wilderness Act—that are linked more closely than they might seem.
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Policy Update Position on S. 1079, Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining ahead of a hearing scheduled for May 14, 2019.
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Magazine Article Breaking Ground A visitor center for Stonewall.
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Blog Post Mormon Pioneer Highlights Fierce Determination in a Rugged Landscape This story is part of our series on national heritage areas, the large lived-in landscapes managed through innovative partnerships to tell America’s cultural history.
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Magazine Article Renaissance Man Frederick Douglass’s home tells the story of a man who overcame enormous obstacles and paved the way for others to do the same.
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Policy Update Position on H.J.Res. 38, Disapproving the Stream Protection Rule NPCA sent the following position to the Senate and House of Representatives ahead of anticipated floor votes in both chambers.
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Magazine Article Slip Sliding Away? Hydraulic fracturing could endanger the American eel and harm the longest undammed river on the Eastern Seaboard.
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Magazine Article Remembering Stonewall A spark, a movement and now, a monument.
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Magazine Article Living Monuments Ian Shive traveled to the corners of the sea to document the watery wonders of the nation’s marine monuments.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 959 and H.R. 1289 NPCA submitted the following positions on legislation considered on the floor of the House on September 16, 2015.
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Blog Post 50 Years Later: Reflecting on the Significance of Earth Day The first Earth Day launched her career as an environmental historian and her path as an activist. Now, even as the pandemic keeps her at home, she commemorates the lasting significance of the Earth Day movement.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 799 and H.R. 3683 NPCA submitted the following positions to the Federal Lands subcommittee of the House Committee on Natural Resources ahead of a hearing on November 30, 2016
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Magazine Article Following the Flood How a foot race helps one Pennsylvania town remember a historic tragedy.
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Blog Post Birds—and Birders—Find a Welcome Refuge at Monocacy National Battlefield It’s been nearly 150 years since the clash that transformed some gentle fields in northern Maryland to the hallowed status of Civil War battlefields.
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Blog Post Unexpected Lessons from a Week in the Woods What can a person learn from a week in the woods? A lot, it turns out. But for me, none of it was quite what I was expecting.
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Blog Post What’s in an Icon? NPCA’s visual personality has evolved dramatically over the last few years, but our logo hasn’t changed significantly in half a century. It was long overdue for an update. After about a year and a half of research, focus-group testing, surveys, and outreach, NPCA finally unveiled a modernized logo yesterday.
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Blog Post Say No to Soda Mountain Solar Why say no to Soda Mountain Solar? NPCA has 6 reasons highlighting what's at stake near Mojave National Preserve.
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Policy Update Position on S. 15 and S. 1230 NPCA submitted the following positions on legislation being considered by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on June 9, 2015.
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Magazine Article Desert Storm Fort Bowie stood at the center of America's most brutal Indian Wars.
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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 Biden Restores National Monument Protections Last week, the administration restored protections to three public lands: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.
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Magazine Article Lost and Found College students make a stunning discovery that benefits Maggie Walker National Historic Site.
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