Podcast Episodes

National Parks Traveler Podcast | How Wild

Season 7 Episode 328

Today our guest is Marissa Ortega-Welch, a San Francisco-based freelance journalist who focuses on environmental issues. Last year she generated a series of podcasts surrounding the topic of official…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Plight of the Parks

Season 7 Episode 327

So much is happening so quickly to the National Park Service. There have been staff reductions, hiring freezes, spending freezes, orders from the Interior Secretary to make sure that visitors find na…

Published on 5 months ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Environmental Partisanship

Season 7 Episode 326

Is green a red and blue construct? Put another way, is there a political partisan divide over the environment?

That's a particularly interesting question, no doubt more so in recent years as the coun…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility

Season 7 Episode 325

News around public lands these days seems to revolve entirely around the Trump administration. In the case of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, many of the steps the administration i…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | North American Bird Declines

Season 7 Episode 324

True birders are some of the most determined and persistent hobbyists out there. If you want to call bird watching a hobby. For many, it's more like a passion. Many look forward to "Big Day" competit…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Walt Dabney and Public Lands

Season 7 Episode 323

It's fair to say that the nation's public lands, those managed by the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service and other federal land-management agencies are at r…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Congressman Jared Huffman

Season 7 Episode 322

The first 100 days of President Donald Trump's second term might be the most tumultuous first 100 days of any president. He certainly came in prepared to move his agenda forward, no matter what barri…

Published on 6 months ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | National Park Science At Risk

Season 7 Episode 321

There has been much upheaval in the National Park Service this year, with firings, then rehires, and staff deciding to retire now rather than risk sticking around and being fired. There have been fea…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

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 6 months, 3 weeks 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 7 months ago