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In this week’s show, Contributing editor Kim O’Connell joins me to discuss some of the stories from across the country that we’re working on at the Traveler and will be rolling out on the Traveler in the weeks and months ahead. And Lynn Riddick has a short story about a unique fundraiser that’s giving Wind Cave National Park new tools to manage and learn about the genetically pure bison herd there. 

:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Episode introduction with Kurt Repanshek
1:13 Schoodic - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
1:30 Interior Federal Credit Union promotion
1:53 Western National Parks Association
2:17 Friends of Acadia
2:45 Washington’s National Park Fund
3:22 A look at National Parks Traveler's editorial calendar
23:15 Vista Verde - Tim Heintz - The Sounds of Peaks, Plateaus and Canyons
23:51 National Parks Traveler
24:04 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
24:28 Potrero Group
24:57 North Cascades Institute
25:17 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
25:50 Lynn Riddick explores the "Adopt a Bison" program that is helping fund Wind Cave National Park bison research.
43:52 Wonder Lake - Various Artists - The Spirit of Alaska
44:08 Episode Closing
44:42 Orange Tree Productions
45:17 Splitbeard Productions
45:30 National Parks Traveler footer

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