The 1872 Mining Law is out of date. NPCA is among the groups advocating for mining law reform to better protect national ...

Indigenous people were forcibly removed from their homelands, yet strong connections still exist between Tribal communities and the lands that have sustained them since time immemorial. In some cases, ...

"This plan marks historic progress, incorporating Tribal collaboration into the care and stewardship of this critical ...

Uncover the rugged beauty and rich Indigenous history of Utah – a vast state with some of the country’s most famous national ...

Meet America’s Buffalo Soldiers—some of the nation’s first park rangers. On a clear fall day in California in 1903, a group of soldiers and civilians, both African American and Caucasian, gathered in ...

More than a century ago, the discovery of a hidden bird refuge in the Everglades led down a path of greed, vanity, and murder. And that’s just the beginning of the story. In the fall of 1889, George ...

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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 ...

With Booker T. Washington’s help, Julius Rosenwald built 5,000 schools for Black students across 15 Southern states. Why do so few people know his name? Mostly, what Newell Quinton knew about his ...

116,000 Americans were killed in World War I. Why has it taken a century to build a national memorial in Washington, D.C.? Edwin L. Fountain was jogging on the National Mall a decade ago when—for the ...

Days that air quality in Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks was rated “unhealthy” between 1993-2014. Los Angeles had 2,443 bad air days during the same period Along with neighboring Kings Canyon and ...

Oil and gas development already is harming dozens of national park sites around the country. It could get much worse. Just how many national park sites are affected by domestic oil and gas development ...