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National Parks Traveler Podcast | Jackson Hole Sustainable Destination Management Plan
National Parks Traveler Podcast - May 07, 2023 12:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsNational parks are not alone in grappling with crowds. Many gateway communities surrounding our national parks are notable for their own amazing offerings -- natural beauty with tranquil spots for solitude and reflection…and nice venues for dining, listening to live music and pursuing year-round...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | The State of Yellowstone National Park
National Parks Traveler Podcast - April 30, 2023 12:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsIt's easy to take the status of national parks for granted. We read wonderful beckoning stories about them in magazines and newspapers. And we watch gorgeous travelogue pieces about them on television. But how much do we know about the operational status of the national parks? How much do we kno...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | National Park Foundation CEO Will Shafroth
National Parks Traveler Podcast - April 23, 2023 12:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsAcross the National Park System, there are incredible sights that explore American history. There’s a robust mix of cultures reflected in the parks, and breathtaking vistas that, well, will take your breath away. But there also are seemingly countless needs, from backlogs of maintenance projec...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | The National Parks Cookbook
National Parks Traveler Podcast - April 16, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsTravel extensively through the National Park System, and you’ll quickly come to realize that the park’s restaurants try to reflect the local culinary trends, or at least use local ingredients in crafting their menus. For instance, visit national parks in Alaska and you can pretty much count on s...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Pruning the Parks
National Parks Traveler Podcast - April 09, 2023 12:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsOver the years there have been more than a few units of the National Park System that have been head-scratchers. Why were they added? What redeeming value did they bring to the park system? James Ridenour who was director of the National Park Service from 1989 through 1993, was well familiar ...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Campfire Stories
National Parks Traveler Podcast - April 02, 2023 12:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsWhen warm weather spreads across the National Park System, many parks offer nightly gatherings around the campfire. The tradition of gathering around a flickering fire goes back thousands of years. Fire, after all, was the giver of light in the darkest of night, and seen as offering safety from ...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Glacier Bay Wolves
National Parks Traveler Podcast - March 26, 2023 12:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsCoastal grey wolves in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska seem to be feasting well these days on an unlikely food source - sea otters. In fact, the shorelines of Glacier Bay offer wolves a cornucopia of otters and other marine menu items, providing this carnivorous predator safe an...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Ninety-Pound Rucksack, Part 2
National Parks Traveler Podcast - March 19, 2023 12:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsHow did America get hooked on skiing? In 1939, Hannes Schneider moved from Austria to North Conway, New Hampshire, to teach skiing. But before the sport really took off, World War II broke out. After the war, a gritty band of soldiers who fought in the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division, returned ...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Ninety-Pound Rucksack, Part 1
National Parks Traveler Podcast - March 12, 2023 12:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsHow much do you know about World War II history, Grand Teton National Park, and the evolution of outdoor recreation in the United States? Believe it or not, they’re all intertwined. Ninety-Pound Rucksack is a podcast about the U.S. Army’s legendary 10th Division, and the dawn of outdoor recre...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | What's Going On At Big Bend National Park
National Parks Traveler Podcast - March 05, 2023 13:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsBig Bend National Park is not simply a park that you pass along the way. Located in West Texas along the US/Mexico border, this 1,252-square-mile park is five hours from the closest commercial airport. In other words, you must make Big Bend your final destination if you’re going to visit. You’re...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Watch the Bear
National Parks Traveler Podcast - February 26, 2023 13:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsBears tend to scare us when we’re outdoors and they’re not behind steel bars. Particularly grizzly bears. They’re big, with sharp claws and powerful jaws, and seem to be in a bad mood whenever we spot them. We hear about people being mauled to death by bears, and even of black bears attacking ca...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Gauging Western Views
National Parks Traveler Podcast - February 19, 2023 13:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsFor more than a decade, Colorado College has sponsored a poll to gauge conservation sentiments of residents in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Nevada. Over the years, the questions have ranged from whether the members of the public view themselves as conservation...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
National Parks Traveler Podcast - February 12, 2023 13:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsThe US Geological Survey operates five different volcano observatories around the country. These observatories monitor real-time volcanic, hydrothermal, and earthquake activity in Alaska, the Cascade Mountains, California’s Long Valley Caldera, Yellowstone National Park, and the State of Hawaii....
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Exploring the Oregon Trail
National Parks Traveler Podcast - February 05, 2023 13:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsIt is one of the longest units of the National Park System in the country. "It," of course, is the Oregon National Historic Trail, which stretches more than 2,100 miles from Missouri to Oregon. It’s been estimated that between 1840 and 1860 some 300,000-400,000 men, women, and children embarked ...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Migratory Corridors with Dr. William Newmark
National Parks Traveler Podcast - January 29, 2023 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsIt’s a problem that’s been coming for quite some time, and one that really comes as no surprise. The large landscape national parks that are home to many species of wildlife have been turning into biological islands as development hems them in. You can look back to 1993 when the Yellowstone to Y...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Wildlife Migratory Corridors
National Parks Traveler Podcast - January 22, 2023 13:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsThere is a wide acceptance that we have drifted too far away from nature, and that we need to pull closer. Many have called for 30 by 30 - conserving 30% of nature by 2030. The 2022 State of the Birds Report pointed out that more than half of bird species normally found in habitats as diverse as...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Exploring Waco Mammoth National Monument
National Parks Traveler Podcast - January 15, 2023 13:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsExceptionally well-preserved fossils of Columbian Mammoths and other Ice Age animals are found at the Waco Mammoth National Monument in Waco, Texas. In this unit of the National Park System, you can see the only recorded evidence of a nursery herd of Columbian mammoth mothers and their offsprin...
National Parks Traveler Podcast |Birding Changes At Acadia National Park
National Parks Traveler Podcast - January 08, 2023 13:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsNational parks offer some of the best birding in the country. From Acadia National Park to Big Bend National Park and over to Haleakalā National Park, you could spend days looking overhead for a species to add to your life list. But as rich as national parks are in bird life, that’s not to say...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | 2022's Top Stories From The Parks
National Parks Traveler Podcast - January 01, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsWhen unprecedented flooding roars through a national park, shredding major roads that access that park, it rightfully could be pointed to as the top story in the National Park System. And while Yellowstone National Park was that park, not only the flooding, but the lack of human casualties, and ...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Favorite National Park Stories From 2022
National Parks Traveler Podcast - December 25, 2022 13:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsWe’re just about to close the books on 2022 and what a year in the National Park System it has been. We’ve seen catastrophic flooding, drought, and crowds, lots of crowds. Today though, we’re going to focus on some of the positives about being out and about in the parks. We’ve asked contributi...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Climate Change Conversations
National Parks Traveler Podcast - December 18, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsAndrew Revkin, noted journalist, author, and educator, has been reporting on climate change for the better part of 35 years. In a conversation with the Traveler’s Lynn Riddick, he shares stories of his experiences, and how he is adapting his work to foster conversations rather than the tradition...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | National Park Disaster Funding
National Parks Traveler Podcast - December 11, 2022 13:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsIt’s been quite a year in the National Park System when the subject turns to unexpected bills. There was the historic flooding that hit Yellowstone National Park in June, monsoonal flooding that struck Death Valley National Park and Mojave National Preserve later this past summer, and even flood...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation's 25th Anniversary
National Parks Traveler Podcast - December 04, 2022 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsAcross the National Park System, national parks fortunate enough to have friends groups helping them out have been leaning a little bit harder on those non-profit organizations than in the past. In some cases a lot harder as federal funding has not kept up with the increase in park units, or the...
National Parks Traveler Audio Postcard From The Parks | Quitobaquito SpringsOrgan Pipe Cactus National Monument
National Parks Traveler Podcast - December 01, 2022 08:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsNational Parks Traveler correspondent Jennifer Bain visits Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southwestern Arizona. Jessica Pope, the park's interpretation, education and community engagement programs manager, gives Bain a tour of Quitobaquito Springs, a lush oasis in the middle of the Arizo...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Dehydration King Chef Glenn MacAllister
National Parks Traveler Podcast - November 27, 2022 13:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsFreeze-dried meals long have been the go-to food source for many backcountry travelers, but only because they didn’t know other options existed for meal time. And not everyone easily stomachs those meals. To explore the possibilities of home-made dehydrated meals, we are joined by Chef Glenn McA...
National Parks Traveler Audio Postcard From The Parks | "Glacier"
National Parks Traveler Podcast - November 24, 2022 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsThere are places in the National Park System that take your breath away. Places such as Glacier National Park, along the shoreline of Avalanche Lake, or atop Logan Pass staring down valley along with the mountain goats. If you've been here, you'll never forget the experience. Husband-wife duo La...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Overlooked Gems Of The National Park System
National Parks Traveler Podcast - November 20, 2022 13:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsThis year has been a year of firsts for the National Parks Traveler Editor Kurt Repanshek. First-time visits to units of the National Park System, that is. This year Repanshek has taken road trips through Nebraska, Kansas, and New Mexico to explore overlooked gems of the park system. To discuss ...
National Parks Traveler | November News Round-up
National Parks Traveler Podcast - November 13, 2022 13:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsAs winter approaches, the slow season is setting in across the National Park System, which makes it a good time to take measure of some issues that are confronting both the parks and the National Park Service. We’ve invited Kristen Brengel, senior vice president of government affairs for the Nat...
National Parks Traveler | Devils Hole Pupfish
National Parks Traveler Podcast - November 06, 2022 13:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsAs hot, arid, and dusty as Death Valley National Park is, it might come as a surprise to learn that it has a very important fishery of sorts. There is a place in the national park where there is a warm spring that is home to a rare and endangered fish - the Devils Hole Pupfish. Each year the p...
National Parks Traveler | Drive National Parks Traveler's Coverage
National Parks Traveler Podcast - October 30, 2022 12:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsNational Parks Traveler Founder Kurt Repanshek and contributing editors Kim O'Connell and Lynn Riddick discuss the Traveler's role in reporting on national parks and how reader and listener support make that role possible.