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Episode 326
This week’s National Parks & Public Lands News Roundup covers some big and controversial stories: Reports that slavery- and racism-related exhibits a…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Wild West Life of Josie Bassett Morris and Dinosaur National Monument
Episode 325
At the edge of Utah and Colorado, where canyons plunge and rivers carve through stone, lies Dinosaur National Monument — a place known today for Jura…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
NEWS: New Florida National Park? Illegal Grow Site in Sequoia, Park Staff Unionize
Episode 324
Law enforcement rangers cleared an illegal cannabis grow in Sequoia National Park, where they found thousands of plants, toxic chemicals, and major e…
6 months ago
The Forgotten 14th Colony — Daniel Boone and the Cumberland Gap
Episode 323
Everyone knows about America’s 13 original colonies… but did you know there was almost a 14th?
In 1775, a private land deal known as The Transylvania…
6 months ago
Ranger Stabbed, Rabies Outbreak Fears, Grand Teton Peak Faces Renaming
Episode 322
A ranger stabbed in a Colorado state park, hundreds exposed to rabies at Grand Teton, Isle Royale wolf put down, plus updates on hurricane closures, …
6 months, 1 week ago
3 Days in Yosemite That Changed America Forever
Episode 321
In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir embarked on a legendary three-day camping trip through Yosemite. Away from politics an…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Curse of the Petrified Forest
Episode 320
At Petrified Forest National Park, a strange phenomenon has persisted for decades: people from all over the world mailing back pieces of petrified wo…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
News | More Fed Land Job Cuts, "Unamerican" Exhibit Removed From Nat'l Park, State Park Double Homicide
Episode 319
In this episode, we cover the Trump administration's reorganization of the Department of Agriculture and its impact on the US Forest Service, as well…
7 months ago
America's Forgotten National Parks
Episode 318
In Michigan, the country’s second National Park would be established in 1875, only to be redesignated just twenty years later as the state’s first St…
7 months, 1 week ago
The Incredible History of Mammoth Cave Guides
Episode 317
Deep within Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, one can find so much more than rock formations. The shale-capped mass of 400 known miles of cavern…
7 months, 3 weeks ago