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National Parks Traveler Episode #41: Addressing The Backlog, Out In The Parks, Spaceport Secrecy

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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.

National Parks Traveler Episode 40: Counting Cacti, An Off-Season Visit To Cumberland Island

The Saguaro Census at Saguaro National Park
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.

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