National Parks Traveler Episode 140: News Around The Parks

By Kurt Repanshek - October 17th, 2021

It’s mid-October, the visitation season is slowing down for the northern tier of the United States, but that doesn’t mean news from the National Park System is ebbing.

In the past handful of weeks we’ve seen an incident with a black bear along the Blue Ridge Parkway, a woman who got too close to a grizzly sow and her cubs at Yellowstone was sentenced to four days in jail, and President Biden has restored – at least for now – the original boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Esclante national monuments in Utah and returned the original protections for Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument some 130 miles or so off the coast of Cape Cod.

To discuss and dissect these and other stories, Traveler Editor-in-Chief Kurt Repanshek is joined by Contributing Editor Kim O’Connell.

:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Episode introduction with Kurt Repanshek
:56 Whispering Winds - Grant Geissman - Sounds of the Caribbean
1:08 Potrero Group
1:36 Western National Parks Association
1:57 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
2:20 Washington’s National Park Fund
2:54 Nova Scotia Tourism
3:30 Editor-in-Chief Kurt Repanshek and Contributing Editor Kim O'Connell discuss latest news from around the National Park System
17:53 Escalante - Tim Heintz - The Sounds of Peaks, Plateaus and Canyons
18:09 North Cascades Institute
18:27 Interior Federal Credit Union
18:49 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
19:18 Friends of Acadia
19:44 Yosemite Conservancy
20:10 News from around the park system with Kim and Kurt continues
39:58 Bass Harbor - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
40:17 Episode Closing
41:09 Orange Tree Productions
41:40 Splitbeard Productions
41:52 National Parks Traveler footer

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