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| FEATURED STORY |
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| Your Next Park Adventure?
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| Are you headed to a national park in 2022? Take our short survey and tell us whether you plan to travel soon or wait a while, and what adventures are at the top of your bucket list.
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| 5 New Year’s Resolutions for the Biden Administration |
| A year into President Biden’s term, there have been some important wins for our national parks and public lands, but there is still important work to do. Here are five big priorities we’re pushing the administration to take action on in the months ahead.
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| Remembering One of America’s Most Brutal Injustices |
| The tragic death of Emmett Till and the strength and resolve of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, catalyzed the modern civil rights movement. Support a national park site honoring them and make sure that their story is told and preserved.
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| Hiking with Spoons |
| An advocate in the Pacific Northwest turned a painful and frustrating hike into a mission to make parks more welcoming for the millions of people with disabilities and chronic illnesses.
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| FAA Greenlights Dangerous Spaceport at Cumberland Island |
| Last month, the Federal Aviation Administration announced plans to approve permits for Camden Spaceport, a move that would expose Cumberland Island National Seashore in Georgia to the dangers of heavy industrial construction, rocket launches and explosions.
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| A Fruitful Mission |
| As the park system’s fruit trees reach the end of their lifespans, staff are scrambling to save them. Read this and more in the new Winter issue of National Parks magazine.
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| The Park You Won’t Visit This Winter |
| Many parks have been closed throughout the pandemic, but of the 63 national parks in the U.S. National Park System, only one is always closed during the winter, in part because it is so remote. Do you know which national park is closed from November to mid-April each year?
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| Park Stories from NPCA's Past
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| Beginning this month, almost every issue of National Parks magazine — from its 1942 debut to the present — will be available online. This rich archive, which is available to the public for free, is the result of a collaboration with NPSHistory.com. Readers are invited to help complete the collection by emailing scans of missing issues to [email protected].
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| Quote of the Month |
"Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for man."
— Thomas Lovejoy |
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