Archived News and Action Alerts
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Headquarters Division of Education, Cultural and Paleontological Resources invites you to participate in a Zoom meeting to learn about the agency’s plans for a two-year extension of the National Programmatic Agreement (nPA) for National Historic Preservation Act implementation. The agreement will expire in February…
Read More So You’re a THPO, Now What? Please join us June 23-24, 2021 from 12:30-4:00pm EDT for the next FREE virtual workshop in our new series on establishing a THPO Program. This new workshop series has been helping tribes learn what being a THPO is and means, navigate the NPS THPO application, and now…
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It’s that time again! Increasing the amount appropriated for THPOs in the Historic Preservation Fund is a primary area of advocacy for NATHPO. And we need you! Here is a letter template you can personalize – one for the House and one for the Senate. Legislators prefer that you send these to your own…
Read More Thank you for joining NPS and NATHPO on Friday, April 23, 2:00-3:30 pm (Eastern) for a virtual open house for Tribes and THPOs regarding implementation of the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) in the National Park Service. Watch the recording here. Download the PowerPoint presentation here. Topics: overview of the GAOA Legacy Restoration…
Read More On February 9, more than 200 conservation, Indigenous, religious and business groups sent a letter urging President Biden to withdraw the approval of a land exchange that would trade away Oak Flat, an Apache sacred site on the Tonto National Forest in central Arizona, to international mining company Rio Tinto. In the…
Read More On February 11, 2021, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) announced that it was terminating consultation on the development of a Section 106 agreement with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) in the Resolution Copper Project and Southeast Arizona Land Exchange in Tonto National Forest (TNF), Arizona. Pursuant to its…
Read More Washington, D.C. – The National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO) announces the action alert for National Register Final Rule, Request Meeting & Consultation. The DOI/NPS Rule that would fundamentally alter the National Register of Historic Places’ process has moved from Proposed to Final and has been sent to the Office of…
Read More Washington, D.C. – The National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO) announces the action alert for Request for G2G Consultation for FCC’s Twilight Towers Program Comment Request. On August 24, 2020, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) received a request from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to issue a Program…
Read More The proposed mine would destroy a National Register-Listed Traditional Cultural Property (TCP) sand hundreds of additional tribal cultural resources in the region. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) closed the public comment period on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on November 7, 2019, and is rushing to finalize the EIS on…
Read More Thanks to your advocacy last year, we received the largest ever increase in THPO funding in the FY2020 federal appropriation from the Historic Preservation Fund – $2 million! Building on the success of our campaign, it’s time again to send letters to Congress members on the appropriations committee. Since the…
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