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Caption: The Cape Cod National Seashore represents a new type of partnership between the National Park Service and communities to preserve areas of land across the country., Credit: NPS
These parks are all large areas of public land managed by the National Park Service. But there are few such opportunities anymore; all the land is ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: National park boundaries that don’t comport with ecological realities make it challenging to protect animals that range outside the parks. It's just one of the challenges facing the National Park Service., Credit:  Tim Rains / NPS
The National Park Service finds itself in a seemingly paradoxical circumstance: widely admired, but increasingly uneasy about its ability to carry ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Deep Ravine Trail at Little Big Horn National Monument in Montana., Credit:  Brandon Blackburn / NPS
National parks have famously been called “America’s best idea." This expression is commonly interpreted as meaning preservation of America’s iconic...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rocky Ocean Drive on the Park Loop Road in Acadia National Park, Maine. The Park Loop Road allows visitors to experience Acadia by car. , Credit:  Kristi Rugg / National Park Service
I’m often asked, “What’s your favorite national park?” It’s a question that gets me excited, thinking about all the parks I’ve been fortunate to vi...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Six million-acre Gates of the Arctic National Park was established in 1980. , Credit: Ben Minteer
There were national parks even before there was a National Park Service. Yellowstone National Park was the first in 1872. More big western parks fo...

Bought by Radio Newark and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Denali Star Trails as seen from Bryce Canyon National Park, Bryce, Utah. Increasingly, the sky above national parks is considered as much a resource to protect as the land below., Credit:  Jacob W. Frank | The National Park Service
It’s an understatement to say that the views in the national parks are striking. Take Bryce Canyon National Park, for instance, with its legions of...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Radio Newark, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Bob Sonderman unpacks boxes of Ellis Island artifacts
When Superstorm Sandy wrecked the mid-Atlantic coast last fall, national parks took a big hit. Ellis Island got knocked so hard, it landed in Mary...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 03:35