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• Magazine Article A High-Flying Recovery Summer 2015 | By Kate Siber A 40-year study follows the once-imperiled peregrine falcons of Alaska.
• Blog Post Help Kids “Leave No Trace” Jan 2015 | By Jennifer Chambers As we start a new year, it’s a perfect opportunity to make a resolution to spend more time in nature with the young people in our lives.
• Magazine Article Accidental Hero Winter 2020 | By Nicolas Brulliard 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.
• Magazine Article The Long Way Winter 2021 | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan 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.
• Magazine Article Lost and Found Spring 2010 | By Amy Leinbach Marquis College students make a stunning discovery that benefits Maggie Walker National Historic Site.
• Blog Post Living History and Solemn Reflection at Antietam Commemoration Sep 2012 On September 17, 1862, the Union Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia battled for twelve savage hours on the banks of Antietam Creek in Maryland. When the fighting was over, 23,000 people had been killed, wounded, or declared missing, making that one day the bloodiest in the history of the Civil War.
• Policy Update Position on S. 34, Midnight Rules Relief Act May 2017 NPCA submitted the following position to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security ahead of a business meeting on May 17, 2017.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 2982, New York-New Jersey Watershed Protection Act Jul 2023 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries ahead of a hearing scheduled for July 27, 2023.
• Policy Update Position on S. 21, the REINS Act May 2017 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs ahead of a business meeting scheduled for May 17, 2017.
• Press Release America's Great Waters Coalition Gather on Capitol Hill to Discuss Challenges Facing America's Great Waters May 2011 America’s Great Waters Coalition met with decision makers about the challenges facing the nation’s 19 Great Waters
• Blog Post To Have a Functioning Democracy, We Need Truth and Justice Mar 2021 | By Ramadji Doumnandé I lived through three bloody coup d’états before coming to the U.S. To move forward from violence and division, we must be able to denounce propaganda, speak our truth and find common ground.
• Blog Post In Baltimore, the Red and the Blue Wave Together as One Dec 2016 | By Jim Stratton The flag at Fort McHenry reminds us what America stands for and how our nation has endured through decades of challenges.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 959 and H.R. 1289 Sep 2015 NPCA submitted the following positions on legislation considered on the floor of the House on September 16, 2015.
• Blog Post 2 Million Gallons of Pig Waste Next to a National River? What a Load of Hogwash! Jun 2013 | By Emily Jones NPCA and its advocates are fighting an industrial confined animal feeding operation designed to hold thousands of hogs just 6 miles upstream from America's first national river.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 3373 Oct 2017 NPCA submitted the following position to the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands ahead of a legislative hearing scheduled for October 11, 2017.
• Blog Post What’s in an Icon? Jan 2012 | By Annie Riker 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.
• Blog Post The Meaning of Memorial Day May 2022 | By Christa Cherava How a Gold Star Family member honors the vets around her — and finds solace in the public lands dedicated to them.
• Policy Update Position on S. 15 and S. 1230 Jun 2015 NPCA submitted the following positions on legislation being considered by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on June 9, 2015.
• Magazine Article Renaissance Man Spring 2013 | By Scott Kirkwood Frederick Douglass’s home tells the story of a man who overcame enormous obstacles and paved the way for others to do the same.
• Magazine Article Seeing the Light Winter 2017 | By Rona Kobell The discovery of a rare blind catfish in Texas could have far-ranging implications for water and land use.
• Magazine Article The Mysteries of the Panama Hotel Winter 2016 | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan What treasures did Japanese-Americans abandon when they left for internment camps?
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 2647, the Resilient Federal Forests Act Jul 2015 NPCA submitted the following position on H.R. 2647, the Resilient Federal Forests Act, when the bill was considered on the House floor on July 9, 2015.
• Blog Post Governor McDonnell: Please Don't Build Houses on a Historic Civil War Site Aug 2013 "Freedom's Fortress" is an important part of Virginia's history and no place for a subdivision.
• Policy Update Position on S. 750, the Arizona Borderlands Protection and Preservation Act May 2015 NPCA, along with partner organizations, submitted the following position on legislation to be considered by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee during a hearing on May 6, 2015.
• Blog Post 9 Things You May Not Know About the Little Rock Nine Feb 2023 | By Linda Coutant “After three full days inside Central, I know that integration is a much bigger word than I thought.”  — Melba Pattillo, one of the Little Rock Nine
• Magazine Article Second Take Summer 2023 | By Nicolas Brulliard A decade ago, a flawed exhibit about the Sand Creek massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho angered the Tribes. This time, the museum took pains to get the story right.
• Blog Post Why Aren’t More Women Outdoors? Nov 2019 | By Alison Zemanski Heis How one enthusiast is getting more women out of the city and onto the trails.
• Blog Post The Rarest Sea Turtle in the World Oct 2021 | By Jennifer Errick Staff at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina found three nests belonging to the rarest sea turtle species in the world — an animal not commonly found in the state. 
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 1772, the Delaware River Basin Conservation Act Jul 2015 NPCA supports H.R. 1772, the Delaware River Basin Conservation Act of 2015 (DRBCA), which was heard by the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Power, and Oceans on July 23, 2015.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 2459, Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act Jun 2019 NPCA submitted the following position to the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife ahead of a hearing scheduled for June 26, 2019.

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