Podcast Episodes

National Parks Traveler Podcast | George Wright Society

Season 7 Episode 320

George Melendez Wright was a brilliant young scientist with the National Park Service back in the 1920s and 1930s. You could say he was ahead of his time, in that he wanted the Park Service to take a…

Published on 5 months ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Kilauea's Unrest

Season 7 Episode 319

One of the greatest shows on Earth has been going on now for several months in Hawaii, where the Kīlauea volcano at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park has been erupting since late December. The Kīlauea …

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Covering the Parks

Season 7 Episode 318

There are more stories to be found in the National Park System than one could write in a lifetime. Or several lifetimes.

Sometimes those stories can be hard to spot. How many were aware of the factoi…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | A Little Volcanic Levity

Season 7 Episode 317

In this week’s podcast we thought we’d take a break from the unsettling news happening in and around our national parks and federal lands regarding park staff reductions and threats of reducing park …

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | National Park Service Upheaval

Season 7 Episode 316

There is, across the country, some upheaval going on as the Trump administration works to reduce the size of the federal government. Whether you support that effort or oppose it, you can’t deny there…

Published on 6 months ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Threatened Lands

Season 7 Episode 315

Across the United States there are hundreds of millions of acres of public lands. Indeed, there are more than 500 million acres of federal lands managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the U.S…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | NPS Cast Aside

Season 7 Episode 314

It was just over a week ago, on Valentine’s Day, that the Trump administration wiped 1,000 employees off the National Park Service staff without any apparent strategy other than that they were dispen…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | National Parks in Crisis

Season 6 Episode 313

The Trump administration’s determination to reduce the size of government regardless of the cost is having a hard impact on the National Park Service.
 
Last month the agency was forced to rescind jo…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | The Ghost Forest

Season 6 Episode 312

National parks are home to many iconic trees. Bristlecones pines, Whitebark pines, Sequoias, even mangroves. And, of course, redwoods.

These trees hold many stories. The size alone of redwoods and se…

Published on 7 months ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Keeping Cape Lookout Above Water

Season 6 Episode 311

Rising sea levels, stronger storms, eroding shorelines, and sinking terrain are taking a toll on the fragile ecosystems and historic resources at Cape Lookout National Seashore on the Outer Banks of …

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago