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Friend of the National Parks!
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| FEATURED STORY |
Courtesy of Don Barger/NPCA
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| National Park Love Stories |
| NPCA staff share five tales that affirm what many of us have always believed: that aside from their ability to connect us to nature, national parks have the power to connect us to one another.
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| Gutting the National Environmental Policy Act |
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Draft regulations released by the Trump administration would undermine a bedrock environmental law that has protected America’s public lands and national parks for the last 50 years.
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© Alison Zemanski Heis/NPCA |
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| Speaking Out |
| A current Park Service employee shares their concerns about the removal of sexual orientation from workplace protections for Interior Department staff.
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Courtesy of the Bostonian Society |
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| Accidental Hero |
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Crispus Attucks is believed to be the first casualty of the American Revolution, but 250 years later, it’s still difficult to untangle fact from myth. Read about this and more in the Winter issue of National Parks magazine.
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| Dismantling the Clean Water Rule |
| The administration’s rollback of clean water protections is a devastating blow to our national parks and surrounding communities.
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| The National Park Site That Was Almost Blown Up
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| Nearly a century ago, a movie crew was about to dynamite a picture-perfect cinder cone to create an avalanche. Public outrage ensued, and President Herbert Hoover designated the volcano as a national monument. Do you know this park?
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© Jared Dial/NPCA |
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| Come Alive in the Desert This Fall! |
| Hike the startling, sublime, surreal and exquisite landscapes of Joshua Tree and Death Valley National Parks with NPCA this fall, and discover the fascinating complexities of the Mojave Desert wilderness.
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© SunPower |
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| A Bright Idea |
| You can help protect clean air in national parks by going solar. Click to find out more about your NPCA member benefit with solar panel industry leader, SunPower!
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| Quote of the Month |
"This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth…"
— Robert Hayden (from the poem “Frederick Douglass”)
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