National Parks Traveler Podcast Episode 203 | The Year in Review

By Jess Repanshek - January 1st, 2023

When unprecedented flooding roars through a national park, shredding major roads that access that park, it rightfully could be pointed to as the top story in the National Park System. And while Yellowstone National Park was that park, not only the flooding, but the lack of human casualties and rapid recovery, rank that story as arguably the top one in the park system in 2022. But that wasn’t the only major story that came out of the parks this year.

Today we’re looking back at some of the top stories across the park system in 2022. To help us identify them, we’ve asked Kristen Brengel, the National Parks Conservation Association's senior vice president for government affairs, and Mike Murray, chair of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, to join us.

:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Episode Intro with Kurt Repanshek
:48 Otter Point - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
1:05 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
1:26 Interior Federal Credit Union
1:49 Washington’s National Park Fund
2:24 A discussion of top stories in the National Park System in 2022 with Kristen Brengel and Mike Murray.
17:57 The Road Scholar - Bill Mize - The Spirit of South Dakota
18:14 Traveler Promo
18:27 The Everglades Foundation
18:38 Yosemite Conservancy
19:01 Great Smoky Mountains Association
19:22 The year in review with Kristen and Mike continues
31:25 Shee Beg Shee Mor - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
31:43 Friends of Acadia
32:08 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
32:37 Potrero Group
33:07 The year in review with Kristen and Mike continues.
59:11 Vista Verde - Tim Heintz - The Sounds of Peaks, Plateaus and Canyons
59:32 Episode Closing
1:00:27 Orange Tree Productions
1:01:00 Splitbeard Productions
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