John Garder, the senior director of budget and appropriations for the National Parks Conservation Association, discusses congressional action on legislation to address the roughly $12 billion in backlogged maintenance needs across the National Park System. Becky Lomax, author of Moon USA National Parks, talks about what she's seeing in the parks in terms of that maintenance backlog, and we share thoughts about efforts to build a commercial spaceport just west of Cumberland Island National Seashore.
:12 Episode introduction with Kurt Repanshek
1:36 Introduction to John Garder's discussion of the Restore Our Parks Act
2:50 Interview with John Garder
11:00 National Parks Traveler promotion
11:17 Washington's National Park Fund promotion
11:55 Friends of Acadia promotion
12:28 Interview with John Garder continues
20:29 Grand Teton National Park Foundation promotion
21:05 Yankee Freedom promotion
21:45 Interview with Becky Lomax, author of Mooon USA National Parks
49:47 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation promotion
50:15 North Cascades Institute promotion
50:41 Commentary: Secrecy surrounding Camden Spaceport
53:45 Orange Tree Productions
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