As hot, arid, and dusty as Death Valley National Park is, it might come as a surprise to learn that it has a very important fishery of sorts. There is a place in the national park where there is a warm spring that is home to a rare and endangered fish - the Devils Hole Pupfish.
Each year the population of pupfish can swing wildly between highs and lows. Recently, researchers completed their biannual count of Devils Hole Pupfish and the numbers are encouraging. Devils Hole is the only natural habitat where this critically endangered fish exists in the wild, and as the Traveler’s Lynn Riddick discovers from a chat with a park aquatic ecologist, the numbers are the highest in two decades.
:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Episode Intro with Kurt Repanshek
:47 Vista Verde - Tim Heintz - The Sounds of Peaks, Plateaus and Canyons :58 Traveler Promo
1:10 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
1:31 The Everglades Foundation
1:43 Interior Federal Credit Union
2:06 Friends of Acadia
2:34 Death Valley Pupfish with Lynn Riddick
21:49 Escalante - Tim Heintz - The Sounds of Peaks, Plateaus and Canyons 21:59 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
22:28 Great Smoky Mountains Association
22:50 Potrero Group
23:17 Washington’s National Park Fund
23:49 Yosemite Conservancy
24:13 Death Valley Pupfish with Lynn Riddick
44:45 Shenandoah - Randy Petersen - The Sounds of Shenandoah
45:13 Episode Closing
45:45 Orange Tree Productions
46:17 Splitbeard Productions
46:27 National Parks Traveler footer
- By Jess Repanshek - November 6th, 2022 8:02am
