Every national park site sits on ancestral lands. So what does it mean to be a Native American working for the Park Service today? “I am not an artifact,” said Albert LeBeau III, an archaeologist and ...
A walk through the heart of the nation’s capital brings visitors face to face with larger-than-life presidents and visionaries, open park lands, and elaborate memorials honoring our nation’s veterans ...
Emmett Till was murdered 64 years ago. Is it time for a national park that recognizes him and tells the story of the civil rights struggle in Mississippi? When 14-year-old Emmett Till left Chicago for ...
Wild donkeys are cute but destructive, and park officials don’t know what to do with them. To see Death Valley National Park’s largest animal, your best bet is to head west on California state Route ...
Good work is already happening in park landscapes across the country – but there is much more that can be done. Urge your member of Congress to support the Wildlife Movement Through Partnerships Act.
Is the U.S. Ready for a National Park Site Devoted to Reconstruction? On the evening of May 12, 1862, the Confederate ship Planter sailed into Charleston’s harbor, and the captain and officers, ...
Some 54 million years ago, this entire region of Oregon lay beneath the Pacific Ocean. Within the striated rock, scientists have found fossilized evidence of more than 2,200 plants and animals and of ...
Both beautiful and functional, projects built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s endure at national parks ... and we can thank Frances Perkins for getting the CCC started. It’s been ...
"This bill is a promise that we will continue to take care of the places that mean so much to so many people." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO Washington, DC – The National Parks ...
Ed serves as Senior Director in the Mid-Atlantic region, overseeing NPCA’s activities in five states and the District of Columbia. He originally joined NPCA in 2012 as a part of the Mid-Atlantic ...
Opening a tribal house and closing a divide in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. Barely a ripple disturbed the sea as three hand-carved red dugout canoes glided through a cove in Glacier Bay ...