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🏞️ Protecting America's national parks since 1919
@protectparks.bsky.social🚨 This is our FINAL day to voice our support for the Roadless Rule and save 45 million acres of roadless areas.
Tell the U.S. Forest Service that our public forests are NOT for sale. 📢 Leave a unique public comment before it's too late: https://bit.ly/3VcbhTg
@protectparks.bsky.socialVICTORY: MLB will no longer consider Grand Teton National Park for a baseball stadium. We are grateful that Major League Baseball heard the roar of the crowd and rightfully recognized that Grand Teton is already a field of dreams.
@protectparks.bsky.socialLike the plan to give a private developer special access to Yosemite, the proposal for a baseball stadium in Grand Teton should have been immediately rejected.
@protectparks.bsky.social"It is irreplaceable... the idea that we would put a baseball stadium in Grand Teton National Park is just -- what would the word be? -- ludicrous. Crazy. Ridiculous. I mean, I just can’t fathom." -NPCA's Betsy Buffington
@protectparks.bsky.social"Good-faith efforts to streamline government can improve how agencies operate. But dismantling the people and expertise required to carry out their missions isn’t efficiency; it’s diminished capacity." - Sally Jewell, former Secretary of the Interior https://on.wsj.com/3TPdIL1
@protectparks.bsky.social“All Americans should be outraged that our taxpayer dollars are being wasted to fund international companies that seek to destroy our country’s largest park landscape" -- Naawéiyaa Tagaban, NPCA Alaska Campaign Director
@protectparks.bsky.socialArtist Shar Tui’asoa captures the beauty and culture of Hawaiian national parks through an exploration of negative space, for the fourth episode of NPCA’s United by Parks: Artist Sessions.
Meet the artist: https://bit.ly/4yOGbiV
@protectparks.bsky.socialOf the more than 45 million acres of national forest lands that are designated roadless, nearly 30% are within 30 miles of national park sites.
📢 Tell the U.S. Forest Service that our public forests are NOT for sale. Leave a unique public comment today. https://bit.ly/4AsuuQz
@protectparks.bsky.social✅ Urge Congress to support the America the Beautiful Act and invest in our national parks. It's more important than ever that our parks have funding to address deferred maintenance and repairs.
💥 Add your name: https://bit.ly/3SOkhNG
@protectparks.bsky.social"This memo appears to suggest that it’s no longer the purpose of the ESA to ensure animals such as grizzly bears, North Atlantic right whales, or Florida panthers are protected" - NPCA Wildlife Program Director Stephanie Adams. https://bit.ly/3V2Pcq2
@protectparks.bsky.social"We will continue to fight to prevent these special places, surrounding communities, and sovereign tribes from being undermined and exploited." - Sara Cawley, NPCA Energy Director. https://bit.ly/4xu7vlC
@protectparks.bsky.socialThis gigantic, unnecessary arch would become the largest in the world, towering 250-feet, and impede on the doorstep to the final resting place of hundreds of thousands of service men and women, including Jimi's relatives. npca.org/mall
@protectparks.bsky.socialNPCA and partners represented by Democracy Forward call on court to pause unapproved construction at West Potomac Park.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4hvPRcg
@protectparks.bsky.socialHappy 10 years of protecting deep-sea ecosystems, whales, and underwater wilderness, Northeast Canyons & Seamounts Marine Monument! Discover more 🐋 https://bit.ly/4yzLqTr
@protectparks.bsky.social“The fact that they’re moving forward on this before any of the legal steps required is egregious,” - Ed Stierli, NPCA.
@protectparks.bsky.social“This has been the strategy. [The government is] building or doing work in plain sight while claiming that they’re not doing the work at the same time.” - Ed Stierli, NPCA's vice president for government affairs. Read more: https://nyti.ms/46E7O23
@protectparks.bsky.socialBreaking Park News! 🚨 Earthjustice filed suit on behalf of NPCA and other conservation groups to reactivate litigation against Trump’s 2017 monument rollbacks and challenge both sets of illegal proclamations together. https://bit.ly/4x4Kky8
@protectparks.bsky.socialPublic lands are not for sale! The proposed Roadless Rule rollbacks and private sell-offs at Yosemite could be devastating for our national parks. NPCA President and CEO Tiernan Sittenfeld joined PBS News Hour to share more.
@protectparks.bsky.social“We are mourning the lives that have been lost and thinking of those still missing, and of their families and loved ones. We are grateful to Grand Canyon’s brave first responders and staff, who are working tirelessly." – Alex Johnson, NPCA. https://bit.ly/4iFaiEA
@protectparks.bsky.social“For the parks’ next 250 years, I would love to see more people feel that connection, to the land and themselves and their spirit.” - Artist Lynnette Haozous captures Chaco Culture National Historical Park for United By Parks: Artist Sessions. Learn more: npca.org/unitedbyparks
