National Parks Traveler Episode 116: Diving Into The National Park System

By NPT Staff - May 2nd, 2021

There’s a lot to see in our national parks and historic sites, including some pretty interesting things underwater. Lynn Riddick takes a look at the Submerged Resources Center, the arm of the National Park Service that locates underwater resources -- whether sunken ships or planes, old ranches or train tracks, coral reefs or kelp forests -- then documents and interprets them. Always with an eye toward their preservation. And with 3.5 million acres of Park Service land underwater, it’s an immense yet intriguing responsibility.

Also, last week the tables were turned, and the Traveler’s Kurt Repanshek was a guest on a podcast -- the Reliable Sources podcast with CNN’s Brian Stelter. Reliable Sources is all about the story behind the story of how the news gets made. Brian and Kurt discussed challenges of covering the news in the national parks, why the Traveler’s coverage is unique and also more important now than ever.

:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Episode introduction with Lynn Riddick
1:28 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
2:01 Western National Parks Association
2:24 North Cascades Institute
2:42 Friends of Acadia
3:13 Lynn Riddick discusses the work of the National Park Service's Submerged Resources Center with Dr. Dave Conlin, its chief.
32:53 Flamingo - Tim Heintz - The Sounds of the Everglades
33:04 National Parks Traveler
33:16 Potrero Group
33:43 Washington’s National Park Fund
34:20 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
34:44 Interior Federal Credit Union
35:26 Lynn Riddick's discussion with Dr. Conlin about the Submerged Resources Center continues.
59:49 Big Country - Randy Petersen - The Sounds of Yellowstone
1:00:35 Episode Closing
1:01:17 Orange Tree Productions
1:01:50 Splitbeard Productions
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