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NPS/Victoria Stauffenberg 5 Park Landmarks with Curious July 4th Histories What sings “America the Beautiful” more loudly than the natural landscape of our country? Here are five distinctive national park features named for events that took place on this U.S. holiday.        Learn more →

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© Sarah Barmeyer/NPCA After the Storms: 9 Signs of Hope on the Coast Above-normal hurricane activity is predicted for this summer. What does this mean for national parks? See how sustainable practices, technology-based solutions and other positive strategies are strengthening them amid climate change. Learn more → Diana Jo Davies, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library I Was There in 1969 Mark Segal, a pioneering figure in LGBTQ+ activism, recounts his role in the Stonewall uprising and explains why NPCA’s work to establish Stonewall National Monument and open a visitor center continues the path for equality. Learn more → © Chris & Alex 3 Reasons 2024’s ‘Pride in Our Parks’ Was Our Best Yet Couldn’t make it to NPCA’s June events celebrating LGBTQ+ pride? Here’s a recap from Biscayne, Olympic and Indiana Dunes national parks that we hope inspires you to join us next year. Learn more → © Kumpyashka/Dreamstime.com Tell Congress to Protect Our Cultural Resources Decades of low congressional funding have left the National Park Service without the staff and resources needed to protect the significant structures, artifacts and documents it is tasked with preserving. You can help guard the story of our nation by encouraging Congress to pass the $250 million Cultural Resource Challenge. Take action → © Jennifer Errick/NPCA Before the Gate In remote South Carolina, golf courses and gated developments are changing the rural character of some of the first African American-owned lands in the country. The Gullah/Geechee, direct descendants of the area’s enslaved people, are now fighting a new threat that also could harm nearby Reconstruction Era National Historical Site. Listen to the podcast → © Melissa L. Sevigny Weeding the Grand Canyon In the cover story of the latest National Parks magazine, a writer chronicles her 15-day run down the Colorado River as part of a crew to search out and dig up an invasive plant. While braving whitewater, she explores ghosts of the past and the sense of belonging. Learn more → © Mike Workman/Adobe Stock Vanishing Sea Meadows The shrinking of the Laguna Madre’s seagrass beds by sea-level rise in southern Texas portends major changes in the world’s marine ecosystems. Will these underwater plants be able to successfully colonize areas of newly flooded land? Find out in National Parks magazine. Learn more →

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© Snehitdesign/Dreamstime One Mountain, Three Oceans One national park mountain is the only place in the United States — and one of just four in the world — where rain and snowmelt flow into three different oceans. Can you guess which park this mountain is in? Get the answer →

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