As winter approaches, the slow season is setting in across the National Park System, which makes it a good time to take measure of some issues that are confronting both the parks and the National Park Service. We’ve invited Kristen Brengel, senior vice president of government affairs for the National Parks Conservation Association, and Mike Murray, chair of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks to discuss air tour planning in the park system, progress made under the Great American Outdoors Act, and visitation issues.
By Jess Repanshek - November 13th, 2022
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:12 Episode Intro with Kurt Repanshek
:40 Shee Beg Shee Mor - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
:53 Potrero Group
1:20 Interior Federal Credit Union
1:42 Great Smoky Mountains Association
2:06 November News Roundtable with Kristen Brengel and Mike Murray
22:51 Whispering Winds - Grant Geissman - Sounds of the Caribbean
22:06 Traveler Promo
23:18 The Everglades Foundation
23:29 Washington’s National Park Fund
24:01 Yosemite Conservancy
24:26 November News Roundtable with Kristen Brengel and Mike Murray continues
34:45 Amaranth - Bill Mize - The Sounds of the Great Smoky Mountains
35:05 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
35:34 Friends of Acadia
36:00 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
36:21 November News Roundtable with Kristen Brengel and Mike Murray continues
56:32 Flamingo - Tim Heintz - The Sounds of the Everglades
56:51 Episode Closing
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58:15 Splitbeard Productions
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We’re five days into 2025, and already there’s a lot of news concerning national parks and the National Park Service. Traveler Editor-in-Chief Kurt Repanshek is joined today by Contributing Editor Kim O’Connell to discuss the Traveler’s 4th Annual Threatened and Endangered Park Series and other recent park-related news.
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Many of us like to take a walk in our favorite national park, whether it’s a short stroll down one of the boardwalks at Yellowstone National Park, the hike to the top of Old Rag at Shenandoah National Park, or up the Mist Trail at Yosemite National Park, we like to get out and experience parks up close.
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There are across the country more than 430 units of the National Park System. And no doubt, most of us are only familiar with the so-called name brand parks. Places like Shenandoah, Acadia, Everglades, Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon… But just because you’re not already familiar with a park unit doesn’t mean you should write it off your to-do list.
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Elephant seals are not your small, cuddly marine mammals. They are behemoths. Males, known as bulls, can reach 5,000 pounds, while females, known as cows, routinely clock in at around 1,000 pounds or so.
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Most, if not all of us, have bucket lists. Places we want to visit…but don’t always get the opportunity.
This is Kurt Repanshek, your host at the National Parks Traveler. One of the destinations on my bucket list is Gates of Arctic National Park and Preserve and the Noatak River that runs through it. A week or two floating the river sounds pretty ideal to me.
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