There are external, and even internal, influences that can impact units of the National Park System. Urban sprawl can strangle parks and their natural resources. Wildfires can sweep across boundaries and into parks. Rivers can flood and wash out trails and roads, as we saw last June at Yellowstone National Park.
Today we’re going to be talking about looming threats to Yellowstone and Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
In the case of Yellowstone, it’s a gold mine proposed to be sunk into a mountain towering over the park’s northern entrance at Mammoth Hot Springs. At Cape Hatteras, it’s the Atlantic Ocean and the natural dynamics of barrier islands, which were not designed by nature to remain in one place. Instead, they shift as the ocean erodes beaches and moves sand about.
In both of these cases, there are solutions in sight. The question is whether they’ll succeed.
:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Episode Intro with Kurt Repanshek
1:09 Yellowstone - Randy Petersen - The Sounds of Yellowstone
1:32 Great Smoky Mountains Association
1:53 Potrero Group
2:20 Interior Federal Credit Union
2:43 Yellowstone’s Gold and Cape Hatteras’s Shifting Sands
14:46 Wonder Lake - Various Artists - The Spirit of Alaska
15:09 Traveler Promo
15:21 Friends of Acadia
15:47 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
16:15 The Everglades Foundation
16:31 Yellowstone’s Gold and Cape Hatteras’s Shifting Sands continues
25:14 Otter Point - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
25:40 Yosemite Conservancy
26:03 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
26:25 Washington’s National Park Fund
27:02 Yellowstone’s Gold and Cape Hatteras’s Shifting Sands continues
35:15 Escalante - Tim Heintz - The Sounds of Peaks, Plateaus and Canyons
35:18 Episode Closing
35:41 Orange Tree Productions
36:14 Splitbeard Productions
36:24 National Parks Traveler footer
- By Jess Repanshek - May 21st, 2023 7:00am
