7 episodes
Field Trip The Washington Post
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4.7 • 911 Ratings
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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.
Customer Reviews
Loved this podcast!!
I really hope you do more episodes, I've listened to all of these and absolutely loved them! The writing and narrative was so descriptive you could clearly see what they saw! The history and incredible importance of preserving these remarkable places make these so vital for everyone to hear! Job well done 👏👏
So soothing
I am not someone who listens to episodes multiple times. I am very one-and-done with podcasts and episodes. I could listen to this series on repeat. The narrator’s voice is so soothing, the tone is almost reverent and the information is important. I love that you can hear the wildlife in the background of these recordings too. You learn a lot and really feel the push for conservation without being beaten over the head for it. This is the right way to make a podcast.
Critical theory rundown
More of the same as everything else you hear on NPR. Solid reporting, just can’t take anymore of this. It’s divisive for our country. The title kind of feels like bait switch.