You're proscrastinating. Or have been putting it off. Or simply forgot. Whatever the case, today's the last day for you to donate to your favorite national park friends group or cooperating association and claim a 2014 tax deduction for your good deed.

These are the good guys who help national parks get through the hard times...which seem to arise more often than we'd like these days. Here at the Traveler we've pointed out some of the groups this year and how they've helped parks make ends meet.

* The Grand Teton National Park Foundation has mounted a massive campaign to restore the area around Jenny Lake.

* Friends of Saguaro National Park has rehabbed trails, campaigned against projects that could adversely impact Saguaro National Park, and helped students get to the park.

* Friends of Acadia has helped build trails and worked to add acreage to Acadia National Park.

* Friends of Big Bend has been helped the Park Service develop a Fossil Discovery Trail at Big Bend National Park.

* Friends of the Smokies has installed bear cables for backcountry use, rebuilt trails, and helped fund seasonal positions at Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

* The South Florida National Parks Trust has generated hundreds of thousands of dollars for Everglades, Biscayne, and Dry Tortugas national parks, as well as Big Cypress National Preserve.

* The Grand Teton Association has generated countless interpretive and educational materials for Grand Teton National Park, and underwritten books such as Peaks, Politics & Passion, Grand Teton National Park Comes of Age.

* The Yosemite Conservancy has raised millions of dollars for projects in Yosemite National Park, such as the rehabilitation of the Mariposa Grove of sequoia trees.

* The Voyageurs National Park Association has helped the park in many ways; most recently it brought 61 acres into the park's ownership.

* The C&O Canal Trust has worked to preserve, and make available for overnight stays, historic lockkeeper's houses along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park.

* The Trust for the National Mall also has made possible the restoration of a historic lockkeeper's house, developed smartphone apps, and is involved in a massive revitalization of Constitution Gardens.

* The Shenandoah National Park Trust has, among other things, funded research fellowships for studies in the park.

* Friends of Virgin Islands National Park has raised concerns over development that could impact the park, and helped protect cultural resources in the park.

* Washington's National Park Fund has worked on behalf of Mount Rainier, Olympic and North Cascades national parks, underwriting wildlife research, and trail rehab, among other things.

That's just a short list of the many groups that do good work out there. if you have a favorite national park, look up its friends group and donate today.

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Not only does it cost money to keep the website online -- monthly fees to the company that hosts the website on its server, tech bills from fixing things that go boing in the middle of the night, redesign costs so the site appears appropriately on your computer monitor, laptop, tablet, or smartphone (that redesign is coming next month) -- but writers and photographers have bills to pay, too.

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