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• Policy Update Position on Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2020 Sep 2019 NPCA submitted the following statement to members of the Senate Committee on Appropriations ahead of a markup scheduled for September 26, 2019.
• Magazine Article A Mammoth Discovery Fall 2015 | By Jennifer Errick The lucky find that led to the creation of a monument.
• Policy Update NPCA views on provisions of H. R. 5986 Sep 2020 NPCA shared the following position with the House Natural Resources Committee ahead of an anticipated hearing scheduled for October 1st, 2020. 
• 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.
• Blog Post Biden Restores National Monument Protections Oct 2021 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. 
• Blog Post Victory: Incinerator Project Defeated at Monocacy Dec 2014 | By Joy M. Oakes County officials in Maryland vote down a trash-burning incinerator that would have been just yards from a Civil War battlefield.
• Magazine Article Remembering Stonewall Fall 2016 A spark, a movement and now, a monument.
• Policy Update Position to EPA on Air Quality Standards Proposed Rule Sep 2020 NPCA, along with partners, sent the following letter to EPA Administrator Wheeler regarding the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Particualte Matter proposed rule.  
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 3397, to Withdraw the BLM Conservation and Landscape Health Rule Jun 2023 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the House Committee on Natural Resources ahead of a markup scheduled for June 21, 2023.
• 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 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.
• Magazine Article Full Circle Spring 2022 | By Karuna Eberl At Bears Ears National Monument, a crew of young men from the Pueblo of Zuni is caring for the cliff dwellings their ancestors built 800 years ago.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 799 and H.R. 3683 Nov 2016 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
• Blog Post Living Wild in the Wake of Captain John Smith Sep 2012 | By Edward Stierli A new water trail in the Chesapeake Bay watershed connects urban residents to a wild landscape and a fascinating history of exploration.
• 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 Three New National Monuments in the California Desert? Sep 2015 | By Seth Shteir Senator Dianne Feinstein has proposed three new national monuments in the California desert that would preserve this spectacular region’s natural and cultural legacy for future generations. Urge President Obama to use the Antiquities Act to give these storied landscapes the protection they deserve!
• Magazine Article Angel of the Battlefield Fall 2012 | By Heidi Ridgley Clara Barton’s home, just outside of Washington, D.C., tells the story of the Red Cross founder.
• 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?
• Magazine Article A Pool for the People Spring 2015 | By Julia Busiek The ruins of Sutro Baths recall life in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.
• 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. 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.
• Magazine Article Back to the Land Fall 2012 | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan What on Earth does farming have to do with the Chesapeake Bay? As it turns out, everything.
• Press Release Conservation Groups File Motions to Defend Ventura County Wildlife Connectivity Jun 2020 The first-of-their-kind ordinances will help safeguard local wildlife in California
• 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
• 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 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.
• Blog Post Taking Care of America's Best Idea Feb 2012 | By Jennifer Errick "If you were forced to find savings in your personal budget, you would not make cuts across the board. You would not tell your bank that you are reducing your mortgage payment, you would not stop packing lunch for your children, nor would you let your roof continue to leak. You would be more strategic."
• Blog Post Untold Stories of San Luis Valley Oct 2023 | By Karuna Eberl Colorado’s Fort Garland Museum in the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area reveals the converging stories of Hispanic, Native American and African American cultures in the 19th century.
• 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.
• Blog Post Old School Meets New Design Feb 2014 | By Scott Kirkwood A Q&A with “See America” artist Brixton Doyle

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