Isaias Continuing To Create Problems For National Parks
Isaias, a tropical storm at midday Monday, was expected to come ashore along the Carolinas as a hurricane after sundown.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 3rd, 2020 2:49pm
Cumberland Island National Seashore
National Parks Quiz And Trivia #10 – The National Seashore Edition
Time, again, to test your national parks knowledge and learn a little bit in the process. See how much you know about U.S. national seashores.
- By Rebecca Latson - June 16th, 2020 1:45am
National Parks Quiz And Trivia #9
It's time to exercise your national park brain muscles again, with this Quiz and Trivia #9. See just how much you know and learn a little something at the same time.
- By Rebecca Latson - June 2nd, 2020 7:28am
Cumberland Island National Seashore: Georgia’s Coastal Jewel
How often do you hear Cumberland Island National Seashore mentioned?
- By David and Kay Scott - March 30th, 2020 10:47am
Traveler's View: While You Were Sleeping...
Knowledge, as they say, is power. And if you enjoy visiting national parks around the country, you need to stay aware of efforts to weaken environmental laws that protect the parks and other public lands you enjoy for recreational pursuits.
- By Kurt Repanshek - January 21st, 2020 2:00am
National Parks Traveler Episode #41: Addressing The Backlog, Out In The Parks, Spaceport Secrecy
John Garder, the senior director of budget and appropriations for the National Parks Conservation Association, discusses congressional action on legislation to address the roughly $12 billion in backlogged maintenance needs across the National Park System. Becky Lomax, author of Moon USA National Parks, talks about what she's seeing in the parks in terms of that maintenance backlog, and we share thoughts about efforts to build a commercial spaceport just west of Cumberland Island National Seashore.
Rockets Over Cumberland Island National Seashore Raise Concerns
Cumberland Island National Seashore embraces a bucolic coastal setting on Georgia's longest barrier island. It's a place with rich human history, settings attractive to both birdlife and loggerhead sea turtles, dense maritime forests and ecologically vital salt marshes, and nearly 10,000 acres of officially designated wilderness. It also soon could find itself directly beneath the launch trajectory of a commercial spaceport.
- By Kurt Repanshek - November 24th, 2019 1:45am
National Parks Traveler Episode 40: Counting Cacti, An Off-Season Visit To Cumberland Island
How is the health of saguaros at Saguaro National Park? While there's concern that one day Joshua trees might no longer grow in Joshua Tree National Park, or that Glacier National Park might lose its rivers of ice, what about Saguaro National Park and its iconic cacti? Kurt Repanshek travels to Saguaro National Park to discuss the decadal survey of saguaros with park biologist Don Swann. Erika Zambello heads to coastal Georgia for an off-season visit to Cumberland Island National Seashore.
National Parks Traveler Episode 37: NPS's Fiscal Fitness, Rockets Over Cumberland Island, Death Valley Winter
Two professors, one from Harvard, the other from Colorado State University, studied the National Park Service's fiscal condition and came up with some suggestions for improving it. Professor Linda Bilmes discusses those opportunities with Traveler this week. We also look at possible impacts to Cumberland Island National Seashore from a proposed spaceport, and end this week's podcast with thoughts of visiting Death Valley National Park this winter.
National Parks Closing In Advance Of Hurricane Dorian
Units of the National Park System in parts of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina were closed in advance of Hurricane Dorian, which was expected to run up the east coast of Florida and run into those states.
- By Kurt Repanshek - September 3rd, 2019 1:30am
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