America’s National Parks Podcast
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As fires rage across the west in what will likely be the worst year for wildland fires on record, brave people face them head-on, to save our structures and our lives. The fraternity of American firefighters has always been a boys club — today only about 4% are women. And wildland firefighters even more so. In the early 1980s, one woman was among the first to join the Arrowhead Interagency Hotshots, an elite National Park Service crew, stationed at Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks in California.
The text of today's episode comes from Women’s Voices: Women in the National Park Service Oral History Project and the audio comes from an oral history interview conducted by Lu Ann Jones and Leah Baer of the National Park Service Park History Program earlier this year.
How a National Park Becomes a World Heritage Site
The Great Humanitarian
White Nose Syndrome
National Park Week Throwback Thursday: Other Great National Park Podcasts
Dust of the Earth
Angel of the Battlefield
The Return of the Wolves
Oh Shenandoah
News from the Parks | March 2020
Going to the Sun
Wilderness of Rock
Prometheus
News from the Parks | February 2020
101 Years Apart
A Lasting Impact
News from the Parks | January 2020
What Makes a National Park?
National Park Passes Explained
The Black Canyon
The Great Prairie Highway
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