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NPT Ep 176 Spot List - Run Time - 41:40
:02 National Parks Traveler introduction :12 Episode Intro with Lynn Riddick :34 The Road Scholar - Bill Mize - The Spirit of South Dakota :44 Eastern National Passport 1:27 Interior Federal Credit Union 1:45 Washington's National Park Fund 2:18 Wild Tribute 2:39 Great Smoky Mountains Association 3:04 Kurt's Travels with Lynn Riddick 28:33 Black Woods - Nature's Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia 28:54 Grand Teton National Park Foundation 29:22 Potrero Group 29:48 Yosemite Conservancy 30:08 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation 30:27 Everglades Foundation 30:39 Friends of Acadia 31:11 Kurt's Travels with Lynn Riddick Continues 39:19 The Horsemen - Randy Petersen - The Spirit of South Dakota 39:42 Episode Closing 39:58 Orange Tree Productions 40:29 Splitbeard Productions 40:39 National Parks Traveler footer
The impact of the Covid shutdown in the National Park System is well-known, and we regret that many park-related businesses in the gateway communities may not have made it. The National Parks Traveler circled back to one particular business that we had featured in an article in May 2020 –- Southern Yosemite Mountain Guides. -- to see how it has fared ever since.
Waking up in the middle of the night in the backcountry of a national park can often be an interesting, or even unnerving, experience. What was it that caused you to wakeup? Fourteen years ago, deep in the interior of Yellowstone National Park it was the howling of a wolf that woke me, and when I think about it, it still seems like it was just yesterday. The melodic howl hung in the air, seesawing up and down as the wolf sang his song.
We go into national parks to view spectacular scenery, hike, and see wildlife. But have you ever just stopped to listen?
As much as a national park's scenery catches you, the sounds you can pick up during your park visits are just as memorable. And, in the case of a howling wolf, bellowing grizzly, or bugling elk, I would suggest that they're more memorable.
This is Kurt Repanshek, your host at the National Parks Traveler. This week, we're doing away with talking and focusing on listening.
NPT Ep 174 Spot List - Run Time - 35:31
:02 National Parks Traveler introduction :12 Episode Intro with Kurt Repanshek 1:06 Beyond the Reef - Tim Heintz & Grant Geissman - Seascapes: A Musical Journey 1:16 Interior Federal Credit Union 1:35 Yosemite Conservancy 1:55 Eastern National Passport 2:38 Great Smoky Mountains Association 2:58 Friends of Acadia 3:25 Listening to the Parks - Yellowstone 15:27 Listening to the Parks - Rocky Mountain 21:15 Listening to the Parks - Everglades 24:35 Listening to the Parks - Hawaii 31:23 Episode Closing 32:04 Wonder Lake - Various Artists - The Spirit of Alaska 32:12 Orange Tree Productions 32:44 Wild Tribute 33:08 Grand Teton National Park Foundation 33:36 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation 33:56 Washington's National Park Fund 34:28 Everglades Foundation 34:39 Potrero Group 35:05 Splitbeard Productions 35:15 National Parks Traveler footer
The natural and wild environments of our national parks offer the unsurpassed protection and diverse ecosystems that birds need to thrive. And that makes our parks equally great places for you to see birds. This week the Traveler's Lynn Riddick talks to birding expert Nicholas Lund of Maine Audubon, who believes that whether you consider yourself a full-fledged birder or just someone who simply likes birds, when it comes to our national parks, there's always a bird in the air, in a tree or along the water's edge to see, hear, and learn about.
Memorial Day Weekend is the official kickoff to summer. There's no doubt that many of us have already been to a unit of the National Park System in 2022, but this weekend is the traditional kickoff to venturing into the park system.
If you don't know where to go, or what to do, I've invited Kim O'Connell, a contributing writer at the Traveler, and Lynn Riddick, our masterful podcaster, to help sort through the options.
National Parks probably have never been entirely immune from political influences, whether they came out of Washington, D.C., or close to a park's boundaries. But there's an argument that can be made, one backed up by evidence, that the past 50 years have seen the most attempts to subvert the mission of the National Park Service to preserve and protect natural resources unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
Jon Jarvis, the 18th director of the National Park Service under President Obama, and his brother Destry, who has a long career tied to conservation and the national parks, to discuss their new book, National Parks Forever, 50 Years Of Fighting And A Case For Independence. In it they call for the National Park Service to be broken out of the Interior Department in a bid to reduce political interference on the agency.
A new figure -- $21.8 billion -- has been attached to the National Park System's maintenance backlog. How will Congress react to that figure just a couple years after being told the number was around $13 billion?
National parks inspire a lot of things, from great adventures and beautiful landscape paintings to the names of cars and trucks to even music.
In this week's podcast we invite you to tap your feet to the music as Lynn Riddick shares the stories of two vbands whose monikers and tunes are inspired by the national parks: National Park Radio, and the National Parks.
Everglades National Park very easily can be viewed as the poster child for invasive species. It's infested with non-native Burmese pythons, Argentine black and white tegus are making inroads, there is invasive vegetation like Melaleuca and Brazilian pepper, and nonnative fish are making their way into the park's ecosystems.
Kurt Repanshek, editor of the National Parks Traveler, recently had a chance to sit down with Pedro Ramos, superintendent of Everglades National Park, to discuss the battles against these invasive species and look ahead to the park's 75th birthday this fall.
One trail you must take when you visit Everglades National Park is the Anhinga Trail at Royal Palm. You'll find a short boardwalk that takes you out over the waters of Taylor Slough and quickly discover that the mangroves and other trees that rise above the water are popular with anhingas, one of the park's most popular birds.
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