National Parks Traveler Episode 73: Teaching Children Well In National Parks

By NPT Staff - July 5th, 2020

Residential environmental learning centers provide a unique approach to teaching about the world of nature. With magnificent settings in the national parks, these nonprofit organizations provide the expertise and take the time to guide students to a deeper understanding and appreciation conservation, ecosystems and the larger natural world beyond the borders of the national parks.

But the survival of these residential environmental learning centers is in jeopardy. As the president of one such center said, “the impact of coronavirus is an 'extinction-level event.'” Traveler’s Lynn Riddick talks to the leaders of a few of these organizations and the creative ways they finding to keep their doors open. In this episode, she talks with Phillip Kilbridge, president and CEO of NatureBridge.

:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Episode introduction with Kurt Repanshek
1:36 Schoodic - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
1:55 North Cascades Institute promotion
2:15 Washington’s National Park Fund promotion
2:54 Lynn Riddick discusses Residential Environmental Learning Centers with NatureBridge President and CEO Phillip Kilbridge.
32:12 Spring Fever - Bill Mize - The Sounds of the Everglades
32:22 National Parks Traveler promotion
32:35 Grand Teton National Park Foundation promotion
33:06 Friends of Acadia promotion
33:34 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation promotion
34:02 Lynn Riddick's interview with Phillip Kilbridge of Nature Bridge continues.
52:49 Whispering Winds - Grant Geissman - Sounds of the Caribbean
53:09 Episode Closing
53:30 Orange Tree Productions promotion
54:08 National Parks Traveler footer

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