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• Magazine Article A River Spectacle Spring 2022 | By Katherine DeGroff Endangered mussels live on (and on) in the St. Croix.
• 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. 
• Magazine Article A Mammoth Discovery Fall 2015 | By Jennifer Errick The lucky find that led to the creation of a monument.
• 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 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 Testimony: Department of the Interior Reorganization May 2019 Written statement by John Garder, NPCA Senior Director of Budget and Appropriations, for the House Natural Resources Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on April 30, 2019.
• Blog Post Fifty Years Later: Wilderness & Civil Rights in the Same Breath Sep 2014 | By Lauret Savoy 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.
• Policy Update Position on H.J.Res. 38, Disapproving the Stream Protection Rule Feb 2017 NPCA sent the following position to the Senate and House of Representatives ahead of anticipated floor votes in both chambers.
• 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 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 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.
• Blog Post Birds—and Birders—Find a Welcome Refuge at Monocacy National Battlefield Jun 2013 | By Nicholas Lund 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.
• Blog Post Reflecting on Selma, 50 Years Later Mar 2015 | By Frank Peterman 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.
• 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.
• Blog Post Say No to Soda Mountain Solar Apr 2015 | By David Lamfrom Why say no to Soda Mountain Solar? NPCA has 6 reasons highlighting what's at stake near Mojave National Preserve.
• Magazine Article Living Monuments Fall 2018 | By Kate Siber Ian Shive traveled to the corners of the sea to document the watery wonders of the nation’s marine monuments.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. 
• Magazine Article Slip Sliding Away? Summer 2012 | By John Grossmann Hydraulic fracturing could endanger the American eel and harm the longest undammed river on the Eastern Seaboard.
• Blog Post Better Than Fiction May 2014 | By Katherine DeGroff Imagine you’re 27 years old. You’re a talented military strategist and an accomplished soldier. In fact, you have dueled the strongest and bravest of your enemies—and won—repeatedly. You’ve been captured as a prisoner of war and sold as a slave. You’ve been a mercenary and a pirate. You’ve won yourself a coat of arms and the distinction of being a gentleman.
• 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 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. 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 NPCA position on H.R. 1154 and H.R. 2497 Jul 2021 Ahead of anticiapted floor votes, NPCA sent the following positions to all Members of the House of Representatives. 
• Magazine Article Claiming the Rock Summer 2016 | By Nicolas Brulliard The 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island, from 1969 to 1971, marked a turning point in American Indian activism.

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