Search results for “Southeast”
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Olivia Fair Olivia Fair recently graduated from the University of Arkansas where she studied political science, communications, and gender studies.
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Joana Lagunes Arauz Joana Lagunes Arauz, an Environmental Engineering student at Benedict College, excels in analytical thinking and problem-solving with a strong foundation in math and physics.
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Michelle (Meech) Carter Originally from a rural town near San Diego, Meech (she/her) moved to Durham, North Carolina three years ago to pursue her passion of environmental advocacy.
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Erin Hackenmueller Erin Hackenmueller is a storyteller, an outdoor recreation enthusiast, a history fanatic, and a community leader.
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Magazine Article Native Waters Brook trout are making a comeback in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Blog Post 5 Wild Places for a Beach Vacation An advocate for vehicle-free beaches praises some of the last undeveloped places along America’s coasts — and why protecting these untamed lands is so important.
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Magazine Article Speaking Up, Fighting Back Remembering Birmingham's Struggle for Equality
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Blog Post Reflections on Birmingham, Site of America’s Newest National Monument Birmingham was once the nation’s most segregated city, home to brutal, racially motivated violence. Today, a new national park site commemorates the critical civil rights history that happened here.
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Blog Post Get Your Binoculars: The 25 Best National Parks for Birding Find out which national park sites have the most bird species, with a highlight of what you might see at each place.
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Press Release Plan for Energy Development in Southwest Colorado Moves Forward Collaborative Planning Will Help Mesa Verde National Park
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Press Release Cargill to Buffalo River Coalition: 6,500 Hogs are "Good Neighbors" to America's First National River Buffalo River Coalition is calling into question the effectiveness of mitigation and remaining firm in calling for the facility’s removal from the watershed.
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Press Release Proposed Birmingham National Park Site Would Tell Pivotal Civil Rights History Public meeting hosted today to discuss national park proposal
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Press Release Groups Go To Court to Protect Buffalo National River from Factory Hog Farm Waste Lawsuit challenges federal loan guarantees for industrial swine facility in the Buffalo National River watershed
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Press Release Celebrating the Buffalo National River During National Travel and Tourism Week Nation's first national river proves to draw the crowds and is an economic generator, contributing millions of dollars to the surrounding communities
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Blog Post 10 National Park Trip Ideas for President Trump Would President Trump do more to protect national parks if he took time to visit them? Here are 10 inspirational places I’d put at the top of his bucket list.
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Magazine Article A Tale of Two Rivers A unique division of the National Park Service is connecting residents to trails and waterways where they live, from Atlanta’s Chattahoochee River to the Los Angeles River.
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Blog Post Preserving the Stories of Atomic City: A Q&A with Denise Kiernan A new book shares some of the fascinating history behind the young women who unknowingly helped build the first atomic bomb at what could soon become the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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Blog Post Water You Waiting For? 10 Perfect Parks for Paddling Go beyond the hiking trail and enjoy parks from a refreshing vantage point: water. Rivers and lakes offer adventurous routes through some of the country’s most remarkable landscapes, including views you just can’t see from land. From lazy float trips to exhilarating whitewater, national parks have fun options for visitors of every experience level—sometimes even on different stretches of the same river.
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Blog Post 2 Million Gallons of Pig Waste Next to a National River? What a Load of Hogwash! 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.
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Blog Post Space Exploration Should Not Threaten One of Our Country’s Wildest Beaches On World Water Day, I’m speaking out against a plan to build a new spaceport near Cumberland Island.
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Press Release Legacy Florida Bill to Provide Dedicated Funding to Everglades Restoration for The First Time Ever Statement from John Adornato III, Sun Coast Senior Regional Director for National Parks Conservation Association
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Blog Post Spooky, Beautiful Photos of Abandoned Park Towns National parks preserve landscapes with centuries of history. Sometimes beauty is in the remnants of what is no longer there.
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Report America's Heritage For Sale Privately owned land within the congressionally designated boundaries of America’s national parks creates gaping holes that shatter the integrity of individual parks and the system as a whole, and make it more difficult and expensive for the Park Service to protect wildlife and the parks’ natural and cultural treasures. Our national heritage is at risk.
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Report Center for State of the Parks: Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site Recognizing Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site’s significance to our shared national heritage and literary tradition, NPCA’s Center for State of the Parks conducted an assessment to determine the condition of the cultural and natural resources protected within the park.
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Report Center for State of the Parks: Andersonville National Historic Site This report conveys the findings of a cultural resources and stewardship capacity assessment of Andersonville National Historic Site.
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Report Center for State of the Parks: Cumberland Island National Seashore According to an assessment by NPCA's Center for State of the Parks, current overall conditions of Cumberland Island's known cultural resources rated a "poor" score of 55 out of 100.
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Report Center for State of the Parks: Vicksburg National Military Park In recognition of the importance of Vicksburg National Military Park's resources, NPCA's Center for State of the Parks completed an assessment to determine the conditions of those resources.
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Press Release Parks Group Champions Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area The Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area would protect stories of our nation's diverse heritage, from pre-colonial Native American cities to early American rural life to the American Civil Rights Movement and beyond.
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Blog Post 23,743 Luminaries Commemorate the Battle of Shiloh Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee commemorated the 150th anniversary of what many consider to be the first major battle of the Civil War. Park officials honored the 23,743 casualties from that two-day battle by lighting candles throughout the battlefield in a "Grand Illumination"—a moving highlight to more than a week of related events at the park.
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Blog Post Trivia Challenge: The Park That Spans Time Several national park sites span two time zones, such as North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park, whose North Unit operates on Central Time and South Unit operates on Mountain Time. One U.S. national park site, however, spans three different time zones. Can you name this site?
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Blog Post Fort Donelson: A Big Battle on the War’s Frontier Commemorate the anniversary of a critical Civil War battle at a host of upcoming national park programs.
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Magazine Article Through the Looking Glass Photographer Michael Falco captures dreamy Civil War landscapes using a device even older than the battles themselves: the pinhole camera.
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Blog Post Poll: Most Americans Want Park Wildlife Better Protected A majority of Americans believe more needs to be done to safeguard national park wildlife, a newly released NPCA poll shows.
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Press Release National Park System Welcomes Manhattan Project National Historical Park NPCA celebrates addition of Manhattan Project National Historical Park as 409th national park
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Magazine Article Our New Parks A sweeping public lands law paves the way for the addition of Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument and Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument to the National Park System.
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Blog Post Significantly Steamy Parks The National Park Service has designated the thermal features such as geysers and fumaroles at 16 national park sites as "significant," a label that affords them more stringent protections. Only one of these parks lies east of the Rockies.
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Magazine Article Fighting Fluff At well-known caves around the country, volunteers armed with tweezers and brushes keep lint—yes, lint—at bay.
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Magazine Article Saving the Smokies’ Bears A bear-rescue group in Tennessee gives nature a little help.
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Blog Post Want to Take a Bit of This National Park with You? Many national parks were created to protect natural wonders, be they giant sequoias or graceful sandstone arches. Yet, one national park is mandated to give away the very natural resource the park is known for.
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Staff Bart Melton Working from Washington, D.C., Bart currently leads NPCA’s Wildlife Program, focusing on the critical issues facing national park wildlife across the country.
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