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.
Ring, Grandfather, Ring
Changes to Free National Park Admission,World's Longest Fossilized Footprints | National Park News
Nevermore
Marconi
Second Century Camping
A Tale of Two Roads
New NPS Units, Bears, Rescues, and Fires | National Park News
Leave No Trace (or...How to Poop in the Woods)
The Million Dollar Room
Wolverines, an Overturned Tanker, and a $500,000 Fine | National Park News
Parks During a Pandemic
90 Years in the West
News From the Parks: New NPS Funding, Strange Blue Squares at Zion, Cuyahoga Dams Removed
The Complexities of Climate Change
Pullman
Sand Creek
News from the Parks | Big Bend Closes, Yosemite Cancels Reservations
Hey Bear!
The Green Table
The Great American Outdoors Act
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