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It wasn’t the black bears we had to watch out for e-biking the new ʔapsčiik t̓ašii (ups-cheek ta-shee) multi-use pathway from one end of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve’s Long Beach unit to the other — it was the banana slugs.

National Parks Traveler, a nonprofit news organization that focuses its coverage on national parks and protected years, has embarked on its year-end fundraising campaign. The campaign furnishes the bulk of the Traveler's budget for the coming year. In the following video, Founder and Editor-in-Chief Kurt Repanshek explains the Traveler's mission, its successes, and its goals.

Two contributors to the National Parks Traveler, photographer QT Luong and writer Craig Pittman, have been honored by the Sierra Club for their achievements.