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America’s National Parks Podcast

DOGE Cuts National Park Facilities, Troops Sent to Big Bend, Yosemite Reservation System On Hold

America’s National Parks Podcast

RV Miles Network

Science, Nature, Places & Travel, Society & Culture:places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.9870 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Parkography! This episode is the first of our monthly comprehensive news roundups on national parks and public lands. Today' we're covering the reinstatement of federal employees, cuts to federal facilities, an executive order on historic monuments, military deployments to Big Bend National Park, potential changes to Yosemite's timed-entry reservation system, Alaskan oil exploration, and various lawsuits concerning logging in national forests. Stay informed about all the latest changes and decisions affecting America's public lands. 00:00 Introduction01:29 Federal Employee Reinstatements and Workforce Reductions03:29 Federal Building Lease Cancellations04:56 Review of Historic Monuments and Memorials06:22 Military Deployment to Big Bend National Park07:32 Yosemite National Park Reservation System Controversy09:00 Opening Alaskan Oil Resources10:25 Logging Controversies in National Forests14:10 Wild Horse Adoption Incentive Program Halted15:12 Hurricane Helene's Impact on Blue Ridge Parkway16:31 Conclusion

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Jason Epperson. This is Parkography, and it's time for the latest in National Park and

0:05.9

Public Lands News. Welcome to Parkography, everybody. This is our first official episode. Of course,

0:14.0

many of you know us as the America's National Parks podcast in the past, or maybe you know me

0:19.0

from the RV and Camping News Roundups over on the RV

0:22.4

Miles YouTube channel. This episode is our first episode. It will be a news roundup of all the

0:27.8

news that happened on public lands over the course of the last month. Most of our episodes will not

0:32.7

be this. Most of our episodes will be storytelling about the history and the people that make America's public lands so special.

0:39.3

But we are kicking off with a News Roundup episode.

0:41.7

Those of you familiar with my RV and Camping News Roundups over on RV Miles know that I try to present these with as little spin as possible.

0:49.8

I try to uphold a level of journalistic integrity.

0:52.8

This episode is going to be full of news

0:55.3

about the White House and the Trump administration. And I want you to know that that's just what it is.

1:00.6

There's a lot going on. The Trump administration obviously is new and they are coming very fast with

1:07.6

lots of plans and changes. And there's just a lot to cover.

1:11.3

So we're gonna cover that all here in an unbiased way.

1:14.2

You're welcome to go into the comments

1:15.7

and argue the heck out of it.

1:17.2

But here I'm telling you what's happening on the ground,

1:19.6

and I'm gonna do that each and every month,

1:21.0

and maybe even more often on parkography,

1:23.9

so that you can make decisions about who to vote for,

1:26.4

where to spend your money, how to travel,

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