Search results for “Fort Matanzas National Monument”
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Park Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park This national park protects the sites of four major Civil War battles, each of which has its own separate significance. Commemorating 85,000 injured and 15,000 dead soldiers, these sites are known collectively as “The Bloodiest Landscape in America.”
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Park Sitka National Historical Park This site became Alaska’s first national park in 1910, preserving the cultural history of Southeast Alaskan Native tribes and the grounds of the 1804 Battle of Sitka in which Russian forces permanently displaced Tlingit people from their ancestral lands. One of the remarkable sights at the park is the Totem Trail, featuring Tlingit and Haida totem poles along a scenic coastal path. The park also preserves the Russian Bishop's House, one of the few surviving examples of Russian colonial architecture in North America. The park's diverse marine and forest habitat attract a variety of wildlife, including many different migratory birds.
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Park Keweenaw National Historical Park Keweenaw National Historic Park preserves the history of 7,000 years of copper mining in the U.S. It is located on the Keweenaw Peninsula, a finger of land in northern Michigan, surrounded by Lake Superior.
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Park Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve This wilderness preserve near the Arctic Circle protects the place where two pristine rivers meet in Alaska’s interior. The entire Charley River basin is contained within the park, as well as about 130 miles of the Yukon, one of the longest and wildest rivers in North America. The geology exposed by these rivers is some of the oldest in the world, dating back 600 million years to the Precambrian Era.
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Park Ninety Six National Historic Site Originally a geographical term, traders out of Charleston, South Carolina thought that this stopping place was 96 miles from the Cherokee town of Keowee in the Blue Ridge Foothills. The first land battle of the Revolutionary War fought south of New England took place at Ninety Six in 1775.
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Report Polluted Parks: How Dirty Air is Harming America’s National Parks “Polluted Parks” graded the pollution-related damage in the 48 national parks required by the Clean Air Act to have the highest possible air quality.
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Fact Sheet Impact of the Sequester on National Parks Funding for national park operations was cut six percent in FY 13, on top of a prior six percent cut to the park service budget over the last two years. Consequently, many parks and park facilities are opening later, closing earlier or more frequently, and providing a reduced level of service to the public and less protection to park resources.
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Report Vanishing Night Skies: The Effects of Light Pollution on the National Park System What compares to the inspiration of lying under a canopy of stars, with the Milky Way splashed across the evening sky? Like diamonds on black velvet, the stars dazzle the senses, touch the spirit, humble the individual, and incite a sense of curiosity and extraordinary wonder.
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Blog Post A Sad Anniversary for the California Desert A year of irresponsible Interior actions undermines decades of progress for our national parks, wildlife and sacred spaces.
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Magazine Article On the Road Take a drive through the national parks of Oregon & California and witness a land of extremes.
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Blog Post Governor McDonnell: Please Don't Build Houses on a Historic Civil War Site "Freedom's Fortress" is an important part of Virginia's history and no place for a subdivision.
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Policy Update Position on legislation before the House Natural Resources Committee NPCA share the following positions ahead of a legislative hearing held by the U.S. House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands scheduled for July 13th, 2020.
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Blog Post How a Border Wall Could Harm Two Desert Parks: A Closer Look The federal government could soon install new bollard wall on portions of the southern border, including 78 miles of barriers near National Park Service land.
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Spotlight An Insider's Guide to Badlands & Beyond Badlands National Park is a vast wilderness of jagged buttes, spires and pinnacles, mixed-grass prairies, and the world’s richest trove of fossils from the Oligocene epoch, estimated at 23 to 35 million years old.
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Magazine Article Coast to Coast From Mississippi’s Gulf Coast beaches to Florida’s Atlantic shores, these national parks have more to offer than white sands and saltwater.
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Blog Post Celebrate Colorado! 5 reasons my state’s national parks should be on your bucket list — and how NPCA works to protect them.
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Blog Post Love Is in the Parks 5 NPCA staff members share their national park love stories.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 3480 and H.R. 4202 NPCA submitted the following positions on legislation being considered by the House Committee on Natural Resources Federal Lands Subcommittee during a hearing on May 24, 2016.
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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 NPCA Calls the 'Dinosaur Trails' Master Leasing Plan Step in the Right Direction Moves Monument Toward Stronger Balance of Conservation, Development, and Recreation
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Magazine Article Finders Weepers Every year, national parks receive dozens of rocks and artifacts returned by remorseful visitors. What are parks to do with the stuff?
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Blog Post The 10 Best Places to See Fall Foliage Each autumn, nature puts on an artistic display as hardwood trees change color. The following national parks offer some of the best fall foliage in the United States.
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Magazine Article Heading for the Hills Treating the lockdown blues with a close-to-home adventure in Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
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Magazine Article On the Map Two new national monuments celebrate American heroes forged during the nation’s darkest times.
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Press Release Lawsuit Challenges Trump Plan to Frack, Drill 1 Million Acres of California Public Lands, Minerals NPCA is fighting a fracking plan that could allow drilling near Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, which already suffer from some of the worst air quality in the country.
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Blog Post Reflections on the Clean Water Act 50 years after the Clean Water Act brought the Cuyahoga River back to life, an NPCA staffer looks back on the progress made — and what still needs to be done — to ensure clean water in national parks.
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Magazine Article The Secret Lives of Hummingbirds Scientists and volunteers shed light on some of the most colorful and charismatic species in the national parks.
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Magazine Article Nesting Instincts What happens when species protection trumps historical interpretation at Petersburg National Battlefield?
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Magazine Article Lands of Protest A visual history of racial justice demonstrations in America's national parks.
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Magazine Article A Land Divided How would a border wall affect national parks?
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Press Release Congress Closer to Increased Protection of "Marbled Halls of Oregon" Statement by Rob Smith, Northwest Regional Director for the National Parks Conservation Association
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Blog Post The Legacy of Fred Korematsu He fought against his forced imprisonment, all the way to the Supreme Court. Today, the National Park Service helps interpret the dark history behind World War II incarceration camps.
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Blog Post Remembering Stonewall The events behind America’s first national park site honoring LGBT history
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Magazine Article The Sustainable Spread National park eateries are serving more healthy, local, sustainable fare, and you can already taste the difference.
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Magazine Article A Turnaround at Grand Portage A Native American Tribe and a national park unit find common ground
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Blog Post Where the Wild Things Were A trip to Las Vegas can bring out the wild animal in many of us—but visitors to the southern Nevada desert may not realize the kinds of actual wild animals that roamed the area long before the flashing lights and clanking slot machines took up residence on the Strip. A mere 30 minutes north of all the glittery casino action, a 23,000-acre swath of the desert known as Tule Springs could become one of our next new national monuments—and you might call this remarkable place “where the wild things were.”
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Blog Post Learn About Black History in 11 Unexpected Places These fascinating sites share important and often overlooked stories about people who shaped U.S. history and culture.
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Magazine Article My Maine A Maine native reflects on the state’s new national park.
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Staff Todd Martin As the Northeast Senior Program Manager, Todd works to defend and enhance National Park units from Maine to Delaware. As a lifelong Mainer with more than a decade of grassroots environmental advocacy experience in the Pine Tree state, Todd is thrilled to join NPCA's northeast team.
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Report Investing in Park Futures Executive Summary of The National Parks System Plan: A Blueprint for Tomorrow
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Staff Jarrod Fasching Jarrod brings more than a decade of fundraising and philanthropy experience to serve the incredible donors and partners who support NPCA. Having spent years supporting arts education and higher-education institutions, he is thrilled to bring his abilities to advocate for and protect his greatest passion, the national parks and the natural world.
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Staff Marisa Carrozzo Marisa Carrozzo is Senior Coastal & Wildlife Program Manager with NPCA’s Sun Coast Region. As an environmental policy professional with a proven track record in leadership and coalition-building across diverse stakeholder groups, Marisa works collaboratively to protect and enhance the treasured coastal and wildlife resources within and linked to the 21 national park units within the Sun Coast.
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Staff Kristen Sykes Kristen is the Northeast Regional Director where she oversees NPCA's work in New Jersey, New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont and leads advocacy campaigns to benefit the forty-nine national park sites in the region.
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Resource Glossary of Unbearable Terms Maps and illustrations showing Alaska's War on Wolves and Bears.
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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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