Thirty years ago, nearly one-third of the national park sites had historic fruit trees of some kind. It is unknown how many of them remain.
This data was pulled from a 2009 National Park Service report written by Susan A. Dolan called “Fruitful Legacy: A Historic Context of Orchards in the United States, with Technical Information for Registering Orchards in the National Register of Historic Places.” Dolan’s source for the list was a 1992 paper by William Coli and Nora Mitchell titled “Inventory and Conservation of Genetic Resources in the Form of Historically Significant Fruit and Nut Trees in the National Park System.”
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Blog Post
An Enormous, Wild Victory for Alaska
Tireless advocates stepped up in 2024 to defend the Brooks Range and America’s largest intact park landscape from the Ambler mining road — and they won
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Press Release
Water Resources Bill Passes Congress; Prioritizes National Park Waterways and Restoration Projects Across the Country
"WRDA keeps the momentum going on park projects that cannot afford to wait." -- NPCA's Chad Lord
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Press Release
NPCA Commends Vital Funding for National Parks Facing Back-to-Back Disasters
If passed, the bill will fund repairs for badly damaged infrastructure at more than a dozen national park sites and support local economies that rely on them to the tune…
