National Parks Traveler Episode 11: Grand Teton National Park Foundation

By Kurt Repanshek - April 28th, 2019 7:00am

Grand Teton National Park Foundation CEO Leslie Mattson discusses how her organization is able to help raise the visitor experience at Grand Teton National Park. Kurt Repanshek reviews two books focused on the Civil War, and Erika Zambello explores Russell Cave National Monument in Alabama.

:02 Welcome to National Parks Traveler
:12 Episode introduction
1:34 Introduction of Leslie Mattson, CEO of Grand Teton National Park Foundation
2:26 Leslie Mattson interview
13:20 The Potrero Group spot
13:49 Grand Teton National Park Foundation spot
14:30 Leslie Mattson interview continued
22:19 Friends of Acadia spot
22:50 North Cascades Institute spot
23:16 Yosemite Conservancy spot
23:52 Civil War book reviews
30:37 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation spot
31:06 Yankee Freedom spot
31:58 Washington's National Park Fundspot
32:37 Erika Zambello visits Russell Cave National Monument
38:08 Orange Tree Productions spot
38:50 Show footer

Grand Teton National Park

Russell Cave National Monument

Antietam National Battlefield

National Parks Traveler Podcast

By Kurt Repanshek - April 28th, 2019 7:00am

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Permalink Submitted by Bill Baehr on April 29, 2019 - 11:44am.

Thank you to the GTNP Foundation for the work you do to improve GTNP. It's good that rich people buck up and donate to the Park. It's too bad the Jenny Lake Renovation did not include a much larger parking lot or shuttle busses to the area to solve the problem of no places to park after about 10:00 am everday during full season. The NPS keeps letting people in the gates knowing damn good and well there is no where for people to park, so people park along the Park Road.

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