Podcast Episodes

National Park News | Access To Tallest Tree Blocked, Mobsters In The Bottom of Lake Mead

Episode 208

In this episode, we share the news about Hyperion, the world's largest tree, and the attempts at Redwood National Park to keep people from making the…

3 years, 7 months ago

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This Contested Land with McKenzie Long

Episode 207

National Monuments are some of our nation’s most controversial lands. On April 26, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order to review twenty-s…

3 years, 7 months ago

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The Failed Gold Rush

Episode 206

Skagway earns its fame in an enthralling story, as the gateway to the Klondike Gold
Rush, nearly fifty years after the California Gold Rush of 1849. …

3 years, 7 months ago

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Restoring Yellowstone

Episode 205

Yellowstone National Park turned 150 this year, but of course, the national park moniker is just a human designation for this exotic landscape.  a ma…

3 years, 8 months ago

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News From the Parks | Yellowstone National Park is CLOSED, Plastic Sales Banned in Parks & More

Episode 204

In this month's edition of News from the Parks, a late-breaking story out of Yellowstone, all 5 entrances are closed due to flooding and dangerous co…

3 years, 8 months ago

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Grand Register of the Yo-Semite Valley

Episode 203

Yosemite was once a wild land ruled by grit. In the 1870s and 80s, only the hardiest of travelers braved the rumbling wagon road and the twenty-mile …

3 years, 9 months ago

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Teddy Roosevelt’s Namesakes: One Man, Many Parks

Episode 202

What do a brownstone in the heart of New York City, a site near the Canadian border in Buffalo, a forested island in Washington, D.C., and the sprawl…

3 years, 9 months ago

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Marsh Billings Rockefeller: Conservation on a Grand Scale

Episode 201

On a picturesque estate in historic Woodstock, Vermont, carriage roads crosscut the property, through fields, flanked by stands of trees, providing s…

3 years, 9 months ago

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News FromThe Parks | ”Fee Free”Smokies to End, Rabbit Disease, Bird Migration & More

Episode 200

In this month's news, we're sharing the proposed "parking tag" that the Great Smoky Mountains National Park may implement, the Brown v. Board of Educ…

3 years, 10 months ago

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Betty Reid Soskin

Episode 199

On Thursday, March 31, the oldest working National Park Service Ranger Betty Reid Soskin retired after a decade and a half of sharing her personal ex…

3 years, 10 months ago

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