National Parks Traveler Episode 88: Understanding The Mission Of The Wilderness Land Trust

By Kurt Repanshek - October 18th, 2020

In this week’s show, we look at a nonprofit organization whose sole existence is to acquire, from willing sellers, private lands surrounded by official, or proposed, wilderness in national parks, national forests, and other publicly owned lands. Once those lands are acquired and transferred to the federal land managers, The Wilderness Land Trust will put itself out of business. But that’s not going to happen overnight, as the Trust’s executive director, Brad Borst, explains during our conversation.

Back in 2018 this organization, working with the National Park Trust and the Rocky Mountain Conservation, was able to acquire a 33-acre inholding at Rocky Mountain National Park and see the land transferred to the National Park Service. But first it had to dismantle a house on the property.

02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Episode introduction with Kurt Repanshek
:53 Sieur de Monts - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
1:24 Wild Tribute promotion
1:54 Grand Teton National Park Foundation promotion
2:27 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation promotion
2:51 The Work Of The Wilderness Land Trust, a discussion with Executive Director Brad Borst
14:52 Torch - Bill Mize - The Sounds of the Everglades
15:14 National Parks Traveler promotion
15:28 North Cascades Institute promotion
15:46 Friends of Acadia promotion
16:14 Washington’s National Park Fund promotion
16:52 Our discussion with Wilderness Land Trust Executive Director Brad Borst continues
33:29 Blue Mist - Randy Petersen - The Sounds of Shenandoah
33:44 Episode Closing
34:19 Orange Tree Productions promotion
34:55 Splitbeard Productions
35:08 National Parks Traveler footer

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