National Park Conservation Association

Dennis G. Arguelles, Senior Program Manager, Los Angeles Field Office of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) and  Laura Torres, Outreach Manager, from the same organization called into Cafe Con Leche on Tuesday, January 15, 2019. NPCA is a Nonprofit organization with 100 years of existence and who aim is to protect the National Parks.  
We discussed the government shutdown’s impact on our national parks and park service employees and how important it is to contact our elected officials to take immediate action to reopen National Parks.   We also talked about the expansion of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, as well as the expansion of the Cesar Chavez National Monument near Keene, CA.