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Back to SearchYellowstone Boosts Cell Service, Glacier East Opens, Condors Return to Redwood | National Park News
Episode 158
A collared Yellowstone wolf has been killed...by the governor of Montana, Yellowstone is seeking to improve communication services, Glacier National …
4 years, 11 months ago
Community Science in National Parks
Episode 157
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are spending their free time counting birds, measuring water quality, or monitoring pollinators. T…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Battle of Bunker Hill
Episode 156
On June 17, 1775, New England soldiers faced the British army for the first time in a pitched battle. Bloody fighting took place throughout a hilly l…
4 years, 11 months ago
Restoring the Everglades
Episode 155
One and a half million acres of shallow-water marine habitats, freshwater marshes and prairies, saltwater wetland forests, and pine and hardwood fore…
4 years, 11 months ago
100.Years of Hot Springs, New Filming Rules | National Park News
Episode 154
Visitor statistics have been released for 2020, and visitation to parks was down about 1/3, thanks to park closures. There's a new National Park Serv…
5 years ago
Scandal and Special People of Effigy Mounds
Episode 153
More than a thousand years ago in the Upper Midwest, indigenous people were moving mountains—literally. The Mound Builders changed the landscape by p…
5 years ago
100 Years at Mount Rainier
Episode 152
This week on America's National Parks, a great mountain of the west, and conservation lessons learned over the course of a century.
5 years ago
Digging Up Dinosaurs
Episode 151
Much of the western United States was once blanketed in hundreds of feet of sand. The unforgiving sun beat down on the landscape for 20 to 30 million…
5 years ago
Mask Mandate, Commercial Filming Permits Struck Down | National Park News
Episode 150
It's time for this month's "news from the parks" episode. Today, we cover President Biden's new executive order requiring masks-wearing on federal la…
5 years, 1 month ago
Wolves of Isle Royale
Episode 149
With wolves decreasing at Isle Royale, the moose population could decimate the forest and vegetation communities. Neither species is native to the is…
5 years, 1 month ago