Latest Everglades Podcast Episodes
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Fossilized Parks
National Parks Traveler Podcast - April 28, 2024 12:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsHave you ever closely inspected the landscape when you’re touring the National Park System, particularly in the West? You never know what you might find. Back in 2010 a 7-year-old attending a Junior Ranger program at Badlands National Park spied a partially exposed fossil that turned out to b...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Wolverine Recovery in Colorado
National Parks Traveler Podcast - April 21, 2024 12:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsWolverines, the largest land-dwelling members of the weasel family, once roamed across the northern tier of the United States, and as far south as New Mexico in the Rockies and southern California in the Sierra Nevada range. But after more than a century of trapping and habitat loss, wolverines ...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Cultural Resource Challenge
National Parks Traveler Podcast - April 14, 2024 12:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsSpur a discussion about traveling to a national park for a vacation and odds are that it will revolve around getting out into nature, looking for wildlife, perhaps honing your photography skills, or marveling at incredible vistas. Will the discussion include destinations that portray aspects o...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Total Solar Eclipse of the Parks
National Parks Traveler Podcast - April 07, 2024 12:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsTens of millions of people in the United States will be able to witness a Total Solar Eclipse on Monday as the rare astronomical event cuts a path from Texas to Maine, up to 122 miles wide in some spots. This is a great opportunity to see the exact moment when the moon fully blocks the sun, cre...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Music Inspired by the Parks
National Parks Traveler Podcast - March 31, 2024 12:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsWith March madness down to the Sweet 16, and Opening Day of Major League Baseball having arrived, we’re going to take a break this week and dive into our podcast archives for this week’s show. This is Kurt Repanshek, your host at the National Parks Traveler. My NCAA bracket was busted the ve...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Padre Island's Sea Turtles
National Parks Traveler Podcast - March 24, 2024 12:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsOne of the most popular public events in the National Park System was the release of sea turtle hatchlings, shuffling off into the Gulf of Mexico at Padre Island National Seashore. I say was, because the number of those public events has been drastically scaled back in recent years. The progr...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Polluting the Parks
National Parks Traveler Podcast - March 17, 2024 12:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsAir pollution and climate change impacts can have outsized effects on the National Park System, as well as lesser noticed but just as concerning effects. But are those impacts spread across the entire park system, or clustered around a few? Back in 2019 the National Parks Conservation Associat...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | State of the Parks 2024
National Parks Traveler Podcast - March 10, 2024 12:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsWhile most visitors to the National Park System view the parks as incredibly beautiful places, or places rich in culture and history, there’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes within the parks, and with the National Parks Service. Traveler editor Kurt Repanshek has closely followed the par...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | National Park Guidebooks
National Parks Traveler Podcast - March 03, 2024 13:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsWith nearly 430 units in the National Park System, of which 63 are National Parks, we all probably could use a little help in planning our adventures into the park system. But do you simply visit a park’s website to plan your trip? Find an online guidebook? Buy a hardcover guidebook? Or simply w...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Staying Safe At Hawai'i Volcanoes
National Parks Traveler Podcast - February 25, 2024 13:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsHawai’i Volcanoes National Park is such a unique destination in the National Park System. Located on the Big Island, it’s surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, it has rainforests, and it boasts two active volcanoes in Mauna Loa and Kilauea. A visit to Hawai’i Volcanoes comes with a number of opti...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Vanishing Treasures
National Parks Traveler Podcast - February 18, 2024 13:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsFrom the Rocky Mountains to the West Coast and up to Alaska, there are thousands of historic structures and archaeological sites on National Park System landscapes. They range in variety from homesteader cabins to pre-historic cave dwellings. Taking care of these buildings and archaeological s...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Coming to the Aid of Giant Sequoias
National Parks Traveler Podcast - February 11, 2024 13:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsStand before a giant sequoia tree in Sequoia or Kings Canyon national parks or nearby Yosemite National Park and you’re overwhelmed by their size, and assume they’re impervious to anything that might be thrown at them. But as we learned from wildfires in 2020 and 2021 in Sequoia and Kings Canyon...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | California Mountain Lions
National Parks Traveler Podcast - February 04, 2024 13:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsMountain lions are an incredibly charismatic animal on landscapes within, and adjacent to, the National Park System. But they’re seldom seen because of their nocturnal tendencies. There recently was a new report that focused on a comprehensive estimate of mountain lions in California, and th...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Manassas Battlefield Threats
National Parks Traveler Podcast - January 28, 2024 13:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsManassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia protects one of the defining battlefields of the Civil War. It was there that the first battle of the war was waged, in 1861, it was the scene of a second battle a year later, and it was where Confederate General Thomas Jonathan Jackson got his Ston...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | National Park Reservation Systems
National Parks Traveler Podcast - January 21, 2024 13:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsMount Rainier National Park is the most recent unit of the National Park System to announce that you’ll need a reservation to enter the most popular areas of the park during the busy summer months. At the same time, Shenandoah National Park has announced that a pilot program it’s been running fo...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | The Future of the Endangered Species Act
National Parks Traveler Podcast - January 14, 2024 13:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsWhen Congress passed the Endangered Species Act in 1973, it said that species of fish, wildlife, and plants in the US have been rendered extinct as a consequence of economic growth and development untampered by adequate concern and conservation. Other species of fish, wildlife, and plants have b...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Golden Spike National Historical Park
National Parks Traveler Podcast - January 07, 2024 13:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsAs a young boy growing up in New Jersey, a year-end holiday treat was setting up our model railroad. It gave me and my two brothers hours of fun and an opportunity to learn a little about the steam age of railroads. Our first railroad featured Lionel O gauge locomotives and cars. Later we moved...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | 2023 Park System Year in Review Part 2
National Parks Traveler Podcast - December 31, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsWe’re closing out the year with a look back at some of the top stories around the National Park System, and involving the National Park Service. We opened this look back a week ago, with Kristen Brengel from the National Parks Conservation Association, and Mike Murray from the Coalition to Prote...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | 2023 Park System Year in Review Part 1
National Parks Traveler Podcast - December 24, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsThe past year has been a trying one for the National Park Service, and for many of the units in the National Park System. For the agency, employee morale continued to be a major issue as housing, pay, and leadership remained sore spots for many who worked for the Service. On the ground, climat...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | An Underwater Ecological Disaster
National Parks Traveler Podcast - December 17, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsWho wouldn’t like to visit a tropical paradise? Virgin Islands National Park in the Caribbean is one such paradise. It resides on the island of St. John, and features beaches sparkling white and lined with palm trees and other tropical vegetation. Those beaches are washed by warm, turquoise wate...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Support Keeping the Lights On
National Parks Traveler Podcast - December 10, 2023 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsWhen Kurt Repanshek launched the Traveler back in August of 2005, it was primarily to find stories that he could pitch to magazines. But the magazine world took a nosedive, while at the same time readership on the Traveler continued to grow. Today, between 2.5 and 3 million readers and listene...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Speak Up For The Swamp
National Parks Traveler Podcast - December 03, 2023 13:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsIt’s been six years since an oil company headed out across the marl prairie of Big Cypress National Park with vehicles weighing as much as 30 tons to search for oil reserves. Signs of that work continue to show on the prairie, despite stringent National Park Service requirements for restoring th...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Exploring Arches National Park
National Parks Traveler Podcast - November 26, 2023 13:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsUtah has five spectacular national parks, and Arches is one of them. It’s a relatively small park. The scenic drive is only 18 miles long, ending at the Devil’s Garden area, but you’ll have incredible views of the reddish rockscape the entire way right from your vehicle. Of course, it’s al...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Cape Hatteras Shorebirds and Sea Turtles
National Parks Traveler Podcast - November 19, 2023 13:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsThroughout history the barrier islands that today are home to Cape Hatteras National Seashore have been attractive to wildlife. A variety of sea turtle species come ashore to lay their nests, and a variety of shorebirds settle there, too, to lay their eggs. But the thing with wildlife nesting...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Budgetary Blues
National Parks Traveler Podcast - November 12, 2023 13:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsIt was just over a month ago when the federal government was staring at the possibility of a shutdown. Well, little seemingly has changed in the ensuing four weeks, other than that the House of Representatives has a new speaker in Mike Johnson from Louisiana, and the full chamber has settled on ...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | The Search for WPA Park Posters
National Parks Traveler Podcast - November 05, 2023 13:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsWhen a young park ranger was asked by his supervisor to clean out an old barn at Grand Teton National Park in the early 1970s, he discovered a dusty and stained blue, grey, and green poster inviting folks to “Meet the Ranger Naturalist at Jenny Lake Museum. This young ranger, Doug Leen, soon dis...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Extinction is Forever
National Parks Traveler Podcast - October 29, 2023 12:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsThere are more than 2,000 species currently listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. And while species that gain protection under the act have a great chance to survive, not all do. Just recently the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that 21 species – birds, f...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Footprints in Time
National Parks Traveler Podcast - October 22, 2023 12:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsAs you walk through the white gypsum sands of White Sands National Park in southern New Mexico, your footprints will likely be quickly erased by shifting winds. So it’s somewhat of a phenomenon of nature that the oldest footprints ever discovered in North America are not only found here — in per...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Salmon, Cedar, Rock and Rain
National Parks Traveler Podcast - October 15, 2023 12:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsThe Olympic Peninsula of Washington state is a wild and wooly place, even now in the 21st century. That’s no doubt largely because the heart of the peninsula is taken up by Olympic National Park, a more than 900,000-acre jigsaw puzzle of glaciers and peaks, rainforests, rivers, and Pacific coast...
National Parks Traveler Podcast | Canadian Rockies
National Parks Traveler Podcast - October 08, 2023 12:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsSnow has fallen in the upper reaches of Yellowstone and Glacier national parks, and fall weather in general is making a national park trip in the northern half of the United States not terribly appealing. October is a season of transition across the National Park System. Cooler, and in some ca...
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