How is climate change affecting fall colors? Stephanie Spera, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Richmond and a 2019 Second Century Stewardship fellow at the Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park, is using citizen science to help answer that question. Erika Zambello wonders how Hurricane Dorian affected the Abaco parrot (aka the Bahama parrot) and its habitat, and we get a quick update on legislation to cut deeply into the roughly $12 billion maintenance backlog across the National Park System.
By NPT Staff - September 15th, 2019
:12 Introduction with Kurt Repanshek
2:01 introduction to Stephanie Spera's research into fall colors at Acadia National Park
2:56 Interview with Stephanie Spera
12:06 National Parks Traveler promotion
12:22 Grand Teton National Park Foundation promotion
12:59 Friends of Acadia promotion
13:30 Interview with Stephanie Spera continues
24:04 Yankee Freedom promotion
24:42 North Cascades Institute promotion
25:08 Erika Zambello interview with Dr. Caroline Stahala regarding Bahama parrots and how they survived Hurricane Dorian
40:58 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation promotion
41:25 Washington's National Park Fund promotion
42:01 Restore Our Parks Act update with Rebecca Knuffke of The Pew Charitable Trust
46:03 Show closing
46:20 Orange Tree Productions
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Recently I read “The Wolverine Way”, by Douglas Chadwick. It’s a book from 2012 that really dives into the lives of wolverines, a small mammal with a cantankerous reputation that the US Fish and Wildlife Service late last year announced would be a threatened species. The book is a fascinating biography, if you will, of wolverines.
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Summer is almost here. The upcoming Memorial Day weekend is the official kickoff to the summer travel season, and I’m happy to say that the National Parks Traveler will be continuing to bring you news about the parks and how you can enjoy them.
As much as Editor-in-Chief Kurt Repanshek was looking forward to retiring, listener and reader support has enabled the news organization to continue on with its editorially independent coverage of National Parks and protected areas.
With the summer vacation season not too far off, no doubt many National Park Service Superintendents are trying to figure out how to manage the crowds and avoid impacts to natural resources in the park system.
Smokies Life, which most of you who closely follow Great Smoky Mountains National Park know was previously known as the Great Smoky Mountains Association, produces educational and informational materials for Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This week we’re joined by Laurel Rematore, the chief executive officer of Smokies Life, to discuss the name change as well as how her organization lends a big hand to the Park Service staff at Great Smoky.
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I just listened to the podcast and if your looking for older photos then you should definitely post to Faceboo. Older crowds use facebook. You could probably come up with several more photos from there