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National Parks Traveler Podcast

Jan 31, 2021

The country’s largest tribal national park has been authorized and is now in the early stages of development.  The Ioway Tribal National park will sit on 564 acres along the Missouri River on the border of Nebraska and Kansas.  The Traveler’s Lynn Riddick spoke with a tribe member who is on the front lines in the...


Jan 24, 2021

What drove the name change for New River Gorge National River and how does the expansion of Saguaro National Park benefit the park? We discuss those issues this week with Joy Oakes and Kevin Dahl from the National Parks Conservation Association.


Jan 17, 2021

This week we’re talking search and rescue in the National Park System. Each year, there are thousands of search-and-rescue incidents logged across the park system.

The Intermountain Region of the National Park Service is the largest in the agency, and is home to many of the most beautiful, and dangerous, national...


Jan 10, 2021

In this week’s show, our 100th podcast, we take a look at endangered and threatened species that call the National Park System home and the legal battles that swing to and fro over gaining them Endangered Species Act protections. Joining me for this discussion is Noah Greenwald, the endangered species director for the...


Jan 3, 2021

2021 marks 100 years since forester and planner Benton MacKaye conceived a trail connecting farmlands, mountain ranges, camps and towns along the Appalachian Mountain range. Sixteen years later, the Appalachian Trail was completed. Each year an estimated 3 million people take to the trail. In honor of this...