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Press Release Famed Ghost Orchid Moves One Step Closer to Endangered Species Act Protection Climate change, draining of wetlands, and rampant development have also contributed to this sharp decline in an already hard-to-find species.
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Press Release Victory! Blackwell School Becomes America’s Newest National Park Site With a stroke of his pen, President Biden directed the National Park Service to save history at this former segregated school for Latinos
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Press Release ¡Victoria! La Escuela Blackwell Se Convierte En Un Nuevo Parque Nacional de los Estados Unidos Con su firma, el presidente Biden instruye al Servicio de Parques Nacionales el resguardo de la historia de esa antigua escuela donde segregaron a los latinos.
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Press Release President Biden Designates Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument This site honors our veterans’ sacrifices and preserves critical lands and waters in Colorado.
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Blog Post A New National Monument in Colorado Camp Hale military training ground becomes the first national monument President Biden creates using his power under the Antiquities Act. NPCA supports preserving other fascinating sites, too.
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Blog Post The Supreme Court Case that Threatens Our Waters 5 things you should know about the legal fight over the Clean Water Act
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Press Release Alaska Wildlife: Court Orders National Park Service to Revise Hunting Rules District Court concludes that rule allowing destructive hunting practices on national preserves in Alaska is arbitrary, sends it back to agencies to revise
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Press Release Clemson Institute for Parks Honors NPCA Leader on History and Cultural Resources For more than twenty years, Alan Spears has been a powerful driving force for protecting many chapters of our country’s diverse history.
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Blog Post 6 National Parks That Will Benefit from New Fossil Protections In early September, the Interior Department implemented a long-awaited rule that will protect fossils from theft and loss on hundreds of public lands, including national park sites. Here are just a few of the places that are better off as a result.
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Blog Post If You Build It, They Will Come America’s favorite pastime — from one of baseball’s iconic professionals to its youngest players in the Caribbean — has a presence in several national park sites.
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Press Release Congress Resoundingly Approves Blackwell School as America's Newest National Park Site Generations of Latino children experienced segregated education in America. The Blackwell National Historic Site will shed light on this often-overlooked injustice in American history.
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Press Release Federal Court Throws Out Pipeline Permit for Cadiz Water Project Federal judge vacates key permit for controversial pipeline rushed through in final days of the previous administration
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 8108 & H.R. 8109 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands ahead of a hearing scheduled for September 14, 2022.
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Blog Post A National Park with Its Own Mountain Range Among the 63 national parks, Big Bend is the only one that encompasses an entire mountain range — the Chisos Mountains.
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Press Release We Dig It: Parks Group Welcomes Fossil Protections on Public Lands New rule strengthens protections for important paleontological sites across the United States
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Press Release EPA Puts 15 States on Notice Regarding Clean Air for National Parks States' failure to submit required regional haze pollution reduction plans sets a two-year deadline to comply.
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Press Release Conservation Groups Respond to Utah Lawsuit Challenging National Monuments Restoration "As we’ve said time and time again, an attack on one monument is an attack on all. We will continue to fight to ensure all national monuments are protected now and for the future.” - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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Blog Post Collapsing Homes Threaten One of Our Most Popular National Seashores Coastal erosion is destroying beachfront houses near Cape Hatteras, creating dangerous debris and compounding problems for park staff.
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Blog Post Small Wonders: The Country's Teeniest National Park Sites Some national parks are celebrated for their vast landscapes, but these 10 sites share enormous stories and achievements in suprisingly small spaces.
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Magazine Article 'First, Tell the Truth' Once one of the largest slave markets in the South, Forks of the Road is now part of the National Park System. Is Natchez ready to excavate its troubled past?
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Magazine Article Time Travel An illustrated journey through John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.
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Magazine Article Paradise Found? A century ago, a college student in “cavewoman” attire reportedly braved bears, freezing temperatures and a bearskin-clad suitor in the wilds of Rocky Mountain National Park. Did any of it actually happen?
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Magazine Article To Collect or Not to Collect As higher visitation and climate change increasingly threaten artifacts, can the Park Service afford to leave them in place?
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Magazine Article Lizards on the Lam Florida’s latest invasive species is a 4-foot-long South American lizard with a taste for eggs that threatens the Everglades’ ground-nesting animals.
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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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Magazine Article A Hoof Too Far An aggressive stallion from Assateague Island National Seashore gets relocated.
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Magazine Article Naming Right Introducing First Peoples Mountain.
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Magazine Article Ditching Disposables Single-use plastics are no longer welcome in national parks.
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Magazine Article Breaking Ground A visitor center for Stonewall.
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Press Release Momentous Victory for Our National Parks and Communities in the Fight Against Climate Change "This robust bill addresses the climate problem head-on by transitioning the nation to clean energy, reducing pollution, creating jobs and boosting the economy, all vital measures that will ensure our national parks and communities can thrive for generations to come." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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