National Parks Traveler Episode 118: Threatened Grand Canyon

By Kurt Repanshek - May 16th, 2021

Grand Canyon National Park is breathtaking. Standing on the rim, either the north or the south, and gazing into that big colorful maw of geology billions of years old can be transformative...or daunting. For some, that first glance convinces them they need to either hike all the way down to the Colorado River or, better yet, join a river trip for two weeks to soak in the significance of this place.

But as glorious as Grand Canyon National Park is, the national park faces a number of significant issues. National Parks Traveler Editor Kurt Repanshek along with Special Projects Editor Patrick Cone and Jess Repanshek, Traveler’s sound recording engineer, headed to the park in late April to get a better sense of some of the issues that park managers are grappling with and which could alter, possibly significantly, how we experience the canyon.

The following podcast presents a preview of the in-depth coverage we're working on and will be rolling out in the coming weeks and months.

:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Episode introduction with Kurt Repanshek
1:05 Oh Susanna - Grant Geissman - The Sounds of the Grand Canyon
1:18 Potrero Group
1:44 Western National Parks Association
2:05 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
2:29 Friends of Acadia
3:03 A preview of the Grand Canyon National Park stories Traveler is working on.
12:00 Spring Fever - Bill Mize - The Sounds of the Everglades
12:05 National Parks Traveler
12:18 Washington’s National Park Fund
12:55 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
13:26 North Cascades Institute
13:45 Interior Federal Credit Union
14:30 Traveler's Grand Canyon series preview resumes
18:12 Escalante - Tim Heintz - The Sounds of Peaks, Plateaus and Canyons
18:14 Episode Closing
19:29 Orange Tree Productions
20:02 Splitbeard Productions
20:14 National Parks Traveler footer

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