77: People of the Parks - Rolf Peterson

National Park After Dark

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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For this People of the Park's Segment, we sit down with Dr. Rolf Peterson. Dr. Rolf Peterson is celebrated as a world authority on wolves and as an internationally recognized wildlife ecologist. We discuss his extensive and impressive career, conducting wolf and moose research in places like Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Yellowstone National Park, and Isle Royale National Park.

If you haven't listened to episode 61 - Caught in the Crosshairs yet, you're going to want to for this one. Rolf Peterson gives us invaluable insight into the role wolves play in the ecological health and balance of the landscape. He discusses his scientific findings from the longest predator prey study in the United States and gives us an inside look on what it is like to live and research inside Isle Royale National Park.

Book Recommendation: The Wolves of Isle Royale: A Broken Balance. By Rolf Peterson

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0:31.8	Standing proudly at the North entrance of the world's first national park sits in arch.
0:37.3	Rising 50 feet high and constructed with hundreds of tons of stone, this structure can be spotted
0:42.9	from miles away.
0:44.8	It serves as a gateway to Yellowstone National Park, but its inscription holds true to all
0:50.5	parks, for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.
0:55.4	Hundreds of thousands of us pass under this arch and drive through the gates of national
1:00.8	parks around the globe, eagerly anticipating the natural wonders that lie beyond them.
1:07.2	But what about the people behind the scenes?
1:10.0	The people who dedicate their lives to the study of the parks and the wildlife that resides
1:14.8	there.
1:15.9	In this special segment of National Park after dark, we're speaking to a person who has
1:20.7	lent his skills, passion and career to the national park service by studying the effects
1:26.4	predators have on their environment, their necessity, and the devastating effects when
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