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FEATURED STORY

Trailblazers: Women Who Broke the 'Green Ceiling'

Read our first installment in a two-part series on 14 women who broke barriers to make some of our most treasured national parks what they are today.

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TOP STORIES

Confronting America's Dark Past

Eighty years ago, the federal government imprisoned innocent civilians for
their Japanese ancestry. Today, survivors and their descendants fight
to preserve the sites where these injustices took place -- and to
not let history repeat itself.

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Commemorating Yellowstone's 150th Birthday

The world's first national park celebrated a significant milestone
this week -- but its history reaches much further back than 1872
and involves the stories and cultures of more than two dozen Tribes.

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Can Parks Bring Us Together on Climate?

Earlier this week, the president shared his State of the Union address
to a bitterly divided Congress. Love for our parks is one of the few
things they can actually agree on -- and still fight for.

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Finders Weepers

Every year, national parks receive dozens of rocks and artifacts returned by remorseful visitors. What are parks to do with the stuff? Read more in National Parks magazine.

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A Win for Wolves

A federal court sided with NPCA last month, restoring Endangered
Species Act protections for gray wolves in 44 states.

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TAKE ACTION

A Needed Investment in our Parks

The National Park Service welcomes millions of visitors each year to parks across the country, but staff continue to struggle with reduced funding, and nearly 3,500 positions have been eliminated over the past decade. Please urge Congress to bring back these much-needed jobs at our parks.

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Join us for Salute to the Parks

We'd love for you to join us on April 6th for our biggest event of the year. In 2021, over 1,000 people participated in Salute to the Parks virtually to learn about our efforts to protect national parks and to celebrate those leaving a lasting legacy for these inspirational places. It's always a very special evening, and we hope you'll attend again this year.

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A 'Requiem' for Parks?

Former park ranger Mike Yochim dedicated the last years of his life to writing a book about how the devastating impact of climate change on national parks mirrored the toll ALS took on his once-energetic body. Yochim didn't live long enough to get his book published, but his friend Bill Lowry made sure that it was. Join a virtual book launch on March 15 where Yochim's family and friends will discuss Yochim's "Requiem for America's Best Idea: National Parks in the Era of Climate Change."

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Quote of the Month

"What gets remembered is a function of who's in the room doing the remembering."
-- Ranger Betty Reid Soskin


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