Hi, everyone, welcome back to National Park After Dark. I'm Cassie. I'm Danielle. And we're here with another

Trail Tales episode for you all today, but this one is slightly different because we have some

guests with us. We do. We just wrapped up with them. It's such a fun episode. And it's about

something we've never really talked about before on National Park After Dark. And that's families and

kids. I know. It's kind of about

time because you guys have been telling us for years that you do this with your kids. You like,

hey, guys, we have kids. We have kids. We listen. And even teachers have come forward and said, like,

their kids listen for some educational stuff and we're like,

okay, we have children here.

We want to do something that's helpful for them in parks too.

And also for families, not just kids.

This is a strictly kids episode.

But we just wanted to do a little nod to that.

So today we have Annalise and Alish from the National Park Trust here

with us today. And you may have seen them around at National Parks. This trust, it's very

popular. I guarantee you've seen their logos around. But if you're unfamiliar, National Park

Trust is a nonprofit-profit organization dedicated to

protecting parklands and connecting people to the outdoors.

So since 1983, they've protected critical parklands across the country, completing 74 projects

that have benefited 57 national park sites.

And as we celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States, 31 of those

projects have helped preserve historic and cultural sites tied to defining moments in our country's

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