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National Parks Group Names Longtime Conservation Leader Tiernan Sittenfeld as New President and CEO
Sittenfeld joins NPCA after spending more than two decades fighting for public lands, bold action on climate change, and clean air and water for the League of Conservation Voters.
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Park Advocates Condemn Erasure of America’s History at Independence National Historical Park
Forcing the Park Service to dismantle the President’s House exhibit is an insult to the memory of the enslaved people who lived there and to their descendants.
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Administration Censors Climate Science, Harms Visitor Experience at Historic Fort Sumter
To censor and erase sound science at this park, where the first shots of the American Civil War rang out, is a deep insult to the Park Service’s hard work…
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Secretarial Order Aims for Access that Already Exists Across Many National Parks
"Our national parks are the gold standard for American conservation where we must maintain a careful balance between fish and wildlife restoration, recovery, and recreational and subsistence access." -- NPCA's…
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EPA Rejects Colorado’s Regional Haze Plan, Including Coal Plant Retirement Dates
"Coloradans deserve a plan that protects the places we love for future generations. Dirty air is not the legacy we want to leave behind."—NPCA's Tracy Coppola, Colorado Senior Program Manager
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Press Release Senate Rejects Devastating National Park Funding and Staffing Cuts but Leaves Door Open to Future Threats “NPCA and park advocates across the country have been sounding the alarm on the need for park funding and staffing for months, and Congress listened." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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Press Release Parks Group Applauds Bipartisan Support for Reducing Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions "Polling finds that 87% of Americans support restoring or preserving wildlife habitat connectivity and improving migration corridors on lands and waters within and beyond park borders" - NPCA Legislative Director Christina Hazard.
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Press Release Parks Group Calls On Senators to Oppose Amendment Greenlighting the Sale of National Parks “A vote in favor of Senator Lee’s amendment is a vote to sell America’s national parks. And we won’t stand for it." Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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Press Release Parks Group Responds to Reports of Interference With Park Staff Performance Reviews Ordering superintendents to arbitrarily grade their staff lower than they deserve, with little regard for the truth or the agency’s own standards, is wrong.
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Press Release Administration Claims to Lift Hiring Freeze, But Continues to Hamstring Park Staffing National parks are powered by people, and without enough staff, some of our country's most iconic landscapes and its invaluable history are at risk.
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Press Release New Bill Would Better Protect National Parks from Mining Threats "We know the next boom-and-bust rush for critical minerals is coming for our public lands, and this bill takes long-overdue steps to protect our national parks and our American heritage."—Charlie Olsen, NPCA's Energy & Public Lands Policy Manager
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Press Release Administration Orders Sham Review of Park Gift Shops "Banning history books from park stores and cracking down on park T-shirts and keychains is not what national park visitors want from their Park Service."
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Press Release Parks Group Raises Questions and Concerns Over New National Park Fee Policy "Any policy that keeps people from visiting our national parks is a problem...it’s unclear how these changes will be implemented to reduce impacts on park visitors and staff." - Emily Douce, NPCA's Deputy VP of Government Affairs
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Press Release Proposed Assault on Endangered Species Act Would Push Park Wildlife Toward Extinction “The proposed changes, coupled with the mass firing of dedicated staff at US Fish and Wildlife and the National Park Service, put the fate of species like Pacific salmon, the ghost orchid, and the red-cockaded woodpecker in a potentially dire position. Once a species is extinct, it’s gone. Is that the legacy we want to leave behind?”–Stephanie Adams, NPCA's Director of Wildlife
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Press Release Parks Group Urges Congress to Protect National Park Funding and Staffing as Budget Agreement is Made to End Longest Government Shutdown in History "Congress must heed the will of the American people and come together to fund parks so they can remain open, staffed and protected." - Kristen Brengel, NPCA's SVP of Government Affairs
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Press Release ‘Nobody Wants This’: New Poll Finds Majority of Americans Oppose Attacks on National Parks and Park Staff “This poll reaffirms that Americans are united in their support for our national parks. Protecting our national parks is a bipartisan issue." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President & CEO
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Press Release The East Wing of the White House was part of the National Park System. Now it’s gone. Like so many Americans, we are horrified that the president just took a wrecking ball to the People’s House. If our most important symbol of freedom and democracy can be destroyed in the blink of an eye, what’s next?
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Press Release Alaska, America's National Parks at a Crossroad with Interior Department Announcement "Permitting the Ambler mining road ignores the cost, the wishes of the people of the region, the impact to America’s wildlife and national parks, and the engineering challenges of building a 211-mile road across melting permafrost" -- NPCA's Jim Adams
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Press Release Court Filings Reveal Secretary Burgum’s Plans to Terminate Key National Park Staff "Secretary Burgum’s actions are making it impossible for the Park Service to protect the very places and resources Americans hold dear." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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Press Release Trump Administration Announces Atrocious Plan to Destroy America's Largest Park Landscape “This order is so atrocious, it’s nearly unbelievable. Nothing has changed in terms of impacts of this destructive road, or the thousands of Alaskans and hundreds of thousands of Americans who are opposed to it" -- NPCA's Jim Adams
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Press Release Parks Group Warns Shutdown Leaves National Parks Open and Unprotected, While Visitors Remain Confused and at Risk "It’s day six of the government shutdown, and our national parks are already feeling the strain. Nearly two-thirds of park staff are furloughed, leaving only a skeleton crew to protect resources and keep visitors safe." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President & CEO
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Press Release Parks Group Warns Shutdown Impacts Only the Beginning, Urges Congress to Act Immediately “The government has shut down, and the administration is once again putting our national parks and visitors at risk, effectively directing staff to open park gates and walk away... It’s not just irresponsible, it’s dangerous." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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Press Release Parks Group Calls for National Parks to Close if Government Shuts Down, Warns Additional Mass Terminations Will Devastate Parks “NPCA will not stand by and watch history repeat itself... We know what happened last time park staff were forced to leave parks open and unprotected, and the impacts were disastrous... If the federal government shuts down, unfortunately our parks should too." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President & CEO
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Press Release Ongoing Staffing Crisis and Looming Government Shutdown Create More Risks to National Parks, Visitors and Communities Nationwide “It’s unthinkable that we’re once again staring down a government shutdown. But this time, the stakes are even higher.... A shutdown now would leave our national parks and communities even more vulnerable." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President & CEO
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Press Release Administration Doubles Down on Erasing History and Silencing Science in National Parks "NPCA has spent months speaking out against actions that deny the legacies spread across America's parks, battlefields, monuments and historic sites. And we are not backing down." - NPCA's SVP of Government Affairs, Kristen Brengel
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Press Release Groups Denounce Bills to Nullify Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National and Ironwood Forest National Monuments "In Arizona and across the country, our national monuments hold our history, identity, and culture."—Sanober Mirza, NPCA's Arizona Program Manager
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Press Release VICTORY: Court Rules Lawsuit to Protect Wilderness Battlefield Can Proceed Litigation to save this precious landscape and hallowed ground, home to some of America’s most impactful history, will continue.
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Press Release Parks Group Demands Truth: History of Slavery Cannot Be Erased From Our Parks The decision to remove this photograph from the interpretive displays at national parks is as shameful as it is wrong.
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Press Release BLM Moves to Roll Back Public Lands Rule, Threatening National Parks and Public Access "Our public lands should serve everyone, not just oil, gas, and mining interests."—Beau Kiklis, NPCA's Associate Director of Energy and Landscape Conservation
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