National Parks Magazine

Oct 31, 2024 | npca.org | Rona Marech |Jennifer Errick |Nicolas Brulliard |Edward Stierli

Elections can be times of great change and great uncertainty. Election results – for the presidency, for Congress, for state and local offices – could mean monumental changes for us and for our national parks. Our nation’s history is full of such moments – times when we faced an unclear future. And many of those stories are told through national parks.

Mar 26, 2024 | npca.org | Katherine DeGroff

The nation’s first factory strike took place 200 years ago — and it was led by women. In 1824, more than 100 women, some as young as 15, walked off their textile mill jobs in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in protest of extended working hours and reduced pay. Their radical activism inspired hundreds more workers and townspeople to join in a collective outcry that resulted in a settlement with the mill owners.

Mar 26, 2024 | npca.org | Jacob Baynham

Spring 2024 By Jacob Baynham During World War II, Japanese Americans held at Manzanar found joy and normalcy in baseball. More than 80 years later, their field is back. Sometimes history needs to be unearthed, and other times it just has to be weeded. That’s what 27 volunteers gathered to do last November at the Manzanar National Historic Site in California’s Mojave Desert. The volunteers arrived to find 3 acres of tumbleweed that the National Park Service had marked for clearing.

Mar 26, 2024 | npca.org | Katherine DeGroff

Spring 2024 By Katherine DeGroff How Chiricahua National Monument’s hoodoos and history helped one writer find her footing in the great outdoors. I slowed the car and peered at the unassuming sign: “No services.” Six weeks prior, I’d suffered a life-threatening infection that resulted in a stint in intensive care, so this felt like a “here be dragons” challenge and warning in one.

Mar 26, 2024 | npca.org | Kate Siber

Spring 2024 By Kate Siber An art project at Olympic memorializes the  national park’s shrinking glaciers. Grief is just part of the story. Disappearing glaciers is a depressing topic — and a hard one to broach. Eliza Goode, a visual information specialist for Olympic National Park, has often noticed how quickly visitors become overwhelmed when learning about how warming temperatures are affecting the park, yet addressing the climate crisis is a critical part of her job.