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National Parks Traveler Podcast | Federal Lands Fire Sale
Season 7 Episode 329
There are some in Congress who think we should have a fire sale on public lands. Places across national forests and the Bureau of Land Management tha…
9 months, 1 week ago
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 se…
9 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 Int…
9 months, 4 weeks 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 ques…
10 months 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 Resp…
10 months, 1 week 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 …
10 months, 2 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 a…
10 months, 3 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 prepare…
11 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 st…
11 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 …
11 months, 3 weeks ago