Independent filmmaker Tom Huang discusses his new project, Find Me, a movie that uses national parks as a backdrop for a story about personal reflection and rejuvenation in nature. It also touches on the issue of cultural diversity in park visitors. With the official start to summer on June 21, we also offer some tips for staying safe in parks, and look at the gateway town of Estes Park, Colorado.
By Kurt Repanshek - June 9th, 2019
:02 Welcome to National Parks Traveler
:12 Episode introduction
1:23 Introduction to Find Me with filmmaker Tom Huang
2:17 Interview with Tom Huang
10:42 Washington's National Park Fund promotion
11:20 Yankee Freedom promotion
11:56 Interview with Tom Huang Continues
18:46 RV share.com promotion
19:21 Friends of Acadia promotion
20:27 Tips For Staying Safe During Your Park Vacation
25:00 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation promotion
25:25 North Cascades Institute promotion
25:46 Yosemite Conservancy promotion
26:30 Gateway Towns To The Parks - Estes Park, Colorado
34:54 Orange Tree Productions promotion
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Have you ever closely inspected the landscape when you’re touring the National Park System, particularly in the West? You never know what you might find.
Back in 2010 a 7-year-old attending a Junior Ranger program at Badlands National Park spied a partially exposed fossil that turned out to be the skull of a 32-million-year-old saber-toothed cat.
If you’ve ever visited Petrified Forest National Park you’ve no doubt marveled over the colorful fossilized tree trunks. There are also fossilized trees on the northern range of Yellowstone National Park, but nowhere near as colorful.
Wolverines, the largest land-dwelling members of the weasel family, once roamed across the northern tier of the United States, and as far south as New Mexico in the Rockies and southern California in the Sierra Nevada range. But after more than a century of trapping and habitat loss, wolverines in the lower 48 today exist only as small, fragmented populations in Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming, and northeast Oregon.
Spur a discussion about traveling to a national park for a vacation and odds are that it will revolve around getting out into nature, looking for wildlife, perhaps honing your photography skills, or marveling at incredible vistas.
Will the discussion include destinations that portray aspects of the country’s history, or cultural melting pot?
Tens of millions of people in the United States will be able to witness a Total Solar Eclipse on Monday as the rare astronomical event cuts a path from Texas to Maine, up to 122 miles wide in some spots. This is a great opportunity to see the exact moment when the moon fully blocks the sun, creating a blazing corona visible to those observing from the center line of totality.
With March madness down to the Sweet 16, and Opening Day of Major League Baseball having arrived, we’re going to take a break this week and dive into our podcast archives for this week’s show.
This is Kurt Repanshek, your host at the National Parks Traveler. My NCAA bracket was busted the very first day, and while the Yankees won their opening day game against the Houston Astros, I don’t think they’ll go undefeated this year.
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it is not simply a job, far from the sense of lucky, commitment for 6 months or 1 year or permanent career there are a few personal wants that visitors overlook. This (these parks) are our home and family, in a way that trash and bad habits need to be left at the entrance of parks. If you see a person dropping a gum wrapper, spit gum, or just leaves lettuce or bread on the ground, please tell them it is 2019 and humans eho are the only species that litter, need to pick up after themselves always. Create better recreation habits, every bit of a cleaner park can restore animal wild habits.