Dec 31, 2023
We’re closing out the year with a look back at some of the top stories around the National Park System, and involving the National Park Service. We opened this look back a week ago, with Kristen Brengel from the National Parks Conservation Association, and Mike Murray from the Coalition to Protect America’s National...
Dec 24, 2023
The past year has been a trying one for the National Park Service, and for many of the units in the National Park System. For the agency, employee morale continued to be a major issue as housing, pay, and leadership remained sore spots for many who worked for the Service.
On the ground, climate change continued to...
Dec 17, 2023
Who wouldn’t like to visit a tropical paradise? Virgin Islands National Park in the Caribbean is one such paradise. It resides on the island of St. John, and features beaches sparkling white and lined with palm trees and other tropical vegetation. Those beaches are washed by warm, turquoise waters that provide habitat...
Dec 10, 2023
When Kurt Repanshek launched the Traveler back in August of
2005, it was primarily to find stories that he could pitch to
magazines. But the magazine world took a nosedive, while at the
same time readership on the Traveler continued to grow.
Today, between 2.5 and 3 million readers and listeners a year turn
to the...
Dec 3, 2023
It’s been six years since an oil company headed out across the marl prairie of Big Cypress National Park with vehicles weighing as much as 30 tons to search for oil reserves. Signs of that work continue to show on the prairie, despite stringent National Park Service requirements for restoring the landscape after the...