National Parks Traveler Episode 46: Looking Back On 2019 In The National Park System

By Kurt Repanshek - December 29th, 2019

The past year brought many news-making events to the National Park System. It started, of course, with the partial government shutdown that created more than a few problems for the park system, the continued lack of a Senate confirmed director of the National Park Service, hurricanes inflicting damage on coastal parks, and construction of a border wall in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument that possibly destroyed some archaeological sites there.

To help us look back on 2019 and the national parks, we’re joined by Theresa Pierno, president and CEO of the National Parks Conservation Association.

:02 Welcome to National Parks Traveler
:12 Episode introduction with Kurt Repanshek
1:12 Friends of Acadia promotion
1:40 Grand Teton National Park Foundation promotion
2:20 Year in review conversation with Theresa Pierno, president and CEO of the National Parks Conservation Association
16:39 National Parks Traveler promotion
16:54 Washington's National Park Fund promotion
17:29 North Cascades Institute promotion
17:47 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation promotion
18:13 Yankee Freedom promotion
18:54 Year in review conversation with Theresa Pierno continues
44:53 Show closing
45:20 Orange Tree Productions

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