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National Parks Traveler: Invasive Species Plague Parks, And Photogenic Parks
Season 1 Episode 44
How big of a problem are invasive animal species in the National Park System? This week we examine the topic of invasive animal species – think Burme…
6 years, 3 months ago
National Parks Traveler: Longest Terrestrial Migrations, Jean LaFitte National Historical Park
Season 1 Episode 43
Kyle Joly, a National Park Service wildlife biologist who long has studied terrestrial migrations in national park units in Alaska, discusses the wor…
6 years, 3 months ago
National Parks Traveler: Yellowstone Grizzly Bears And Fort Matanzas National Monument
Season 1 Episode 42
How are Yellowstone National Park's grizzly bears faring? Kerry Gunther, the park's bear expert, joins the Traveler this week to discuss the current …
6 years, 3 months ago
National Parks Traveler: Addressing The Backlog, Out In The Parks, Spaceport Secrecy
Season 1 Episode 41
John Garder, senior director of budget and appropriations for the National Parks Conservation Association, discusses congressional action on legislat…
6 years, 4 months ago
National Parks Traveler: Counting Saguaros, Off-Season At Cumberland Island
Season 1 Episode 40
While there's concern that one day Joshua trees might no longer grow in Joshua Tree National Park, or that Glacier National Park might lose its river…
6 years, 4 months ago
National Parks Traveler: Yellowstone wolves, National Parks of Lake Superior, Winter Migrations
Season 1 Episode 39
This week Doug Smith, who heads Yellowstone National Park's Wolf Project, discusses how successful the park's wolf recovery program has been. We also…
6 years, 4 months ago
National Parks Traveler: Afghan Snow Leopards, Protecting Nature, Virgin Islands National Park
Season 1 Episode 38
Erika Zambello and Dr. Alex Deghan, the CEO and co-founder of Conservation X Labs, an organization working to end human-induced extinction, discuss t…
6 years, 4 months ago
National Parks Traveler: NPS's Fiscal Fitness, Rockets Over Cumberland Island, Death Valley Winter
Season 1 Episode 37
Two professors, one from Harvard, the other from Colorado State University, studied the National Park Service's fiscal condition, and came up with so…
6 years, 5 months ago
National Parks Traveler: The Elephant Queen, WNPA Honors, Bryce Canyon In Winter
Season 1 Episode 36
Filmmakers Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone discuss their documentary, The Elephant Queen, which follows the matriarch of an elephant herd as she leads…
6 years, 5 months ago
National Parks Traveler: Florida Panther Genes, Big Bend In Winter, Campground Improvements
Season 1 Episode 35
How did the infusion of Texas puma genes into the small population of Florida panthers in Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve …
6 years, 5 months ago