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National Parks Traveler Episode 65: Sea Level Rise And National Parks, Great Sea Kayaking Park Destinations

The potential cost of sea level rise to national parks, and sea kayaking destinations.
This week we talk with Robert Young, director of Western Carolina University’s Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines about a project to more accurately determine the cost sea level rise could inflict on coastal units of the National Park System. We also take a look ahead to summer in the National Park System, the watery side of the system specifically, with a look at some of the prime sea kayaking destinations awaiting paddlers in the National Park System.

Enter The Everglades: A Journey Of Land And Water

Before I came to the Florida Everglades, I imagined only a province of swamps and sawgrass—a watery place, nearly submerged. So I am surprised to be crunching along a trail deep in a dry landscape that, to my untrained eye, resembles something like the Serengeti Plain. As far as I can see, an open field of shrubs and grasses is studded with towering slash pines that stand apart from each other, perforating the blue sky

Flamingo Visitor Center At Everglades National Park Taking Flight

On a recent morning in Everglades National Park, the predominant sound at the Flamingo Visitor Center wasn’t park rangers giving a lecture or visitors shopping for souvenirs, but the buzzing of electric saws, hammers, and other construction equipment. This park building—an icon of the National Park Service’s ambitious Mission 66 program—is now undergoing a complete rehabilitation and is expected to reopen to visitors in summer 2021.

National Parks Traveler Episode 61: 21st Century National Park Campgrounds

Camping in the National Park System/Kurt Repanshek
What will the 21st century national park campground look like? What amenities are you interested in finding when you pull into a campground? Derrick Crandall, counseler for the National Park Hospitality Association, joins us to discuss two studies that examine the campgrounds, the issues they face, and the demands today’s campers want.

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