Field Trip The Washington Post
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The Washington Post’s Lillian Cunningham journeys through the messy past and uncertain future of America’s national parks. In trips through five iconic landscapes, she ventures off the marked trail and beyond the parks’ borders to better understand the most urgent stories playing out in these places today. Along the way, she meets the people fighting to help these parks evolve – and survive.
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Introducing “Field Trip”
Journey through the messy past and uncertain future of America’s national parks. The Washington Post’s Lillian Cunningham ventures off the marked trail to better understand the most urgent stories playing out in five iconic landscapes today.
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Yosemite National Park
Lillian begins her journey in the place that helped inspire the national parks. As wildfires threaten Yosemite’s giant sequoias, she asks what it will take to correct past mistakes and ensure the survival of these ancient trees.
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Glacier National Park
Lillian experiences the rush of Glacier’s Going-to-the-Sun Road, but her most illuminating stops happen on the Blackfeet reservation. As Native people push for a greater hand in managing national park lands, Lillian asks whether that could ever happen.
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Everglades National Park
Lillian slogs through the marsh and steps back in time to explore how past mistakes devastated the “River of Grass.” What will it take to restore this unique landscape of water and sky? Along the way, the park’s wildlife has a thing or two to say.
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White Sands National Park
Lillian climbs the dunes for a view of a park imprinted with ancient human history and the beginnings of the Atomic Age. In doing so, she tries to understand why America’s deserts have been both safeguarded and sacrificed.
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Gates of the Arctic National Park
Lillian journeys above the Arctic Circle to one of the most remote and least visited National Parks. In our series finale, she confronts the question facing its future: whether a portion of this untouched wilderness will soon include a path for industry.
Klantrecensies
New views on nature
This podcast takes a different way. Visiting the nature parks, and talking with people working and living in and around the parks really paints a full picture. Of the landscape, the plants, the animals, the water, and what it means to all those people. You vist the parks yourself. (And wish you were there.)
And the podcast really goes the extra mile, exploring the creation and past of the parks, the pros and cons, threats and bright sides. And then just goes quiet with the sounds of the parks.
Great to listen to, on so many levels.