This section includes both obituaries and memories. Honoring our loved ones who have died does not end immediately after their passing. We recognize that… so we’re extending our obituary section to include individuals who may have left a long time ago. If you want to remember someone who is gone, either recently or longer ago, please send a photo and your memories to [email protected]
Denver Nelson peacefully passed away on February 28, 2021, after suffering a stroke.
Denver was born in Spencer, Iowa in October 1941 to Harold and Loramae Nelson. He left Spencer at 17 and attended the University of Iowa. He finished his undergraduate degree, medical school, and a 6 year residency in neurosurgery at Stanford University. Before he began his residency, he left Stanford for 2 years and served in the US Airforce as a flight surgeon in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Bronze Star.
NPCA shared the following letter with members of the House of Representives ahead of an anticipated floor vote scheduled for February 26th.
We write to share our support for H.R. 803, Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands Act, as well as positions on specific amendments, ahead of an anticipated floor vote scheduled for February 26th, 2021.
NPCA supports the passage of this visionary legislation that ensures long term protection for the Grand Canyon as well as nearly 1.5 million acres of wilderness and more than 1,000 river miles of National Wild and Scenic Rivers System across the West. H.R. 803 presents an incredible opportunity to protect cultural and natural resources in critical park landscapes. The following titles to the bill would specifically enhance national parks:
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Any time a Republican politician stands up to the rot of today’s GOP, the ghost of Thomas Kuchel smiles.
In the 1960s, when the Red scare remained ascendant and the John Birch Society was taking over the GOP, the California U.S. senator made national headlines as one of the few conservatives willing to criticize them. And not with the winking tut-tuts that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) or Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) have offered against Donald Trump and freshman Georgia Rep. Marjorie “Jewish Space Lasers Cause California Wildfires” Taylor Greene.
No, Kuchel thundered with righteous disgust.
He called the right flank of the GOP “a fanatical neo-fascist political cult…driven by a strange mixture of corrosive hatred and sickening fear that is recklessly determined to control our party or destroy it.”
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Any time a Republican politician stands up to the rot of today s GOP, the ghost of Thomas Kuchel smiles.
In the 1960s, when the red scare remained ascendant and the John Birch Society was taking over the GOP, the California U.S. senator made national headlines as one of the few conservatives willing to criticize them. And not with the winking tut-tuts that Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) or Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) have offered against Donald Trump and freshman Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Jewish Space Lasers Cause California Wildfires Taylor Greene.
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