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Congress: Time to Stop Bickering and Keep Our National Parks Open

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By Jennifer Errick, Editor, Online Communications Note: Here’s where you can take action to keep parks open. Today in northern Arkansas, an unusual thing happened: Park Service employees at Buffalo National River closed their campgrounds for the next four months.* This 94,000-acre park three hours north of Little Rock protects one of the last undammed rivers in the United States, dedicated [...]

Posted on: November 15 2012
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The Power of One: Saving a Piece of Zion

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By Cory MacNulty, NPCA’s Southwest Program Manager It can be a shock to look out at the vast beauty of Zion National Park and spot a giant home built right in the middle of the scenic canyon landscapes that make this part of the country so iconic and inspirational. Fortunately, one plot of land will be saved from this kind [...]

Posted on: October 31 2012
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Wolves under Fire in Wyoming

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By Sharon Mader, Senior Program Manager, Grand Teton This month has been a sad one for Wyoming’s wolves. On October 1, the federal government removed wolves from the protection of the Endangered Species Act, allowing the state to permit hunting of these animals, despite glaring deficiencies in Wyoming’s wolf management plan. Even worse, the state included national park lands (namely, [...]

Posted on: October 23 2012
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Preserving National Parks: It’s Not Just Popular, It’s Patriotic

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By Jennifer Errick, Editor of Online Communications at the National Parks Conservation Association Note: This is NPCA’s third and final story in our series on the upcoming presidential election. You can sign NPCA’s petition urging the candidates to pledge their support for national parks. By day, I work as an editor for NPCA on issues that affect our national parks. Then, when I [...]

Posted on: October 22 2012
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NPCA Celebrates the Preservation of the Hoback Basin

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58,000 Acres South of Grand Teton National Park Saved from Natural Gas Development By Sharon Mader, Senior Program Manager, Grand Teton Just south of Grand Teton National Park, a Houston-based company had proposed to develop 136 natural gas wells on U.S. Forest Service lands that would surely have destroyed the Hoback Basin, an area cherished by Wyomingites for its spectacular [...]

Posted on: October 16 2012
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