National Park After Dark

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The Killing of K’iid K'yaas: Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site Apr 28, 2025

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In 1997 a lifelong Canadian logger had reached the end of his rope. For years, Grant Hadwin attempted to sound the alarm to the dangers of the logging industry, but his attempts to speak for the trees repeatedly fell on deaf ears. Ultimately, he did something almost unforgivable, he cut down K’iid K'yaas - a sacred, protected and beloved Sitka Spruce. His hopes of using the act to garner attention to the evils of logging backfired and shortly after committing the crime, Grant Hadwin disappeared forever.
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Trail Tales 68 Apr 24, 2025

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Today’s stories include paranormal protectors, New Jersey karma, close calls, ghost sailors and slip and slides from hell. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers!
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DDT - So Safe You Can Eat It! Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge Apr 21, 2025

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Today, more than 1 billion people around the world celebrate Earth Day—but decades before this global movement began, one woman laid the foundation. When aerial pesticide programs drenched the Northeast in chemicals like DDT, devastating ecosystems and killing thousands of wildlife species, marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson sounded the alarm. Her groundbreaking book, Silent Spring, ignited a nationwide reckoning with the hidden environmental costs of modern life.
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The Conservation President and the Adventure That Almost Killed Him (Part 2) Apr 14, 2025

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After over a month of a long, arduous overland journey the Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition finally reaches the waters of the River of Doubt. Their troubles have just begun as they are about to face not only the beauty of the unknown, but its perils. Everyone will starve and suffer - but not everyone will survive.
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291: Trail Tales 67 Apr 10, 2025

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Today’s stories include disrupting the natural order, shaming tourons, static ghosts, poop strap injuries, hauntings in Japan, Alaskan thank yous, pennies form heaven and cacti-microneedling Brazilian waxes. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers!
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Introducing: WATCH HER COOK Apr 09, 2025

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Hosts Cassie and Danielle from National Park After Dark are launching a brand new podcast, Watch Her Cook!
Watch Her Cook is a weekly podcast that highlights the incredible women throughout history who have shattered the glass ceiling on the expectations of what women "should" be. From trailblazing inventors and fierce activists to notorious outlaws and criminal masterminds, these women proved their capabilities far surpassed domestic duties.
Every episode dives into the lives of these extraordinary women, some changed the world in groundbreaking ways, and others, in chilling ones.
Tune in every Wednesday for new episodes on Apple and Spotify.

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The Conservation President and the Adventure That Almost Killed Him (Part 1) Apr 07, 2025

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Following a crushing political defeat in 1913, former president Theodore Roosevelt turned to what soothed him the most - the wild and pushing his limits within it. Roosevelt is a complicated historical figure - one who is remembered in teddy bears, for his legacy of public land protection, as the country’s youngest and most influential politician as well as a man who held racist ideals - but not many remember him as a man who lived for adventure and pioneering exploration. When the opportunity presented itself to participate in an expedition into untouched Amazonian jungle to map an unexplored river - he was willing to die for it.
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The River Ladies: Grand Canyon National Park Mar 31, 2025

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Botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter changed the stereotype of women in botany when they found a love for not the delicate flowers, but the cacti with thorns and the vegetation that thrived in the most inhospitable environments. They set out to do something that had never been done before, to be the first women to boat the entirety of the Colorado River and map out the flora of the Grand Canyon. If successful, they would be the first women to ever survive the trip.
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Oh, the Places You Won’t Go: Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park Mar 17, 2025

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In July of 1897, three men were carried into the sky inside a hydrogen balloon with the goal of being the first to reach the North Pole. The fate of their ambitious expedition remained a mystery for decades until a chance discovery unveiled the location of their final camp. But that revelation only gave rise to more puzzling questions we are still trying to answer today.
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Trail Tales 66 Mar 13, 2025

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Today’s stories include slapping the bag, a mother’s intuition, geocaching gone wrong, being saved by spirits, synchronicities and sibling pranks. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers!
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