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Podcast National Park Service Oral History

National Park Service Oral History

National Park Service Oral History

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Frequency: 1 episode/18d. Total Eps: 16

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Interested in what it's like to be born in the middle of a Yellowstone winter or raised in the heart of Yosemite Valley? Curious about the inner workings of parks or how people establish careers with the National Park Service? Hear firsthand accounts from former and current National Park Service employees that celebrate the history of our national parks and the role they've played in lives around the world. Thanks to the Association of National Park Rangers Oral History Project for making many of these interviews possible. People's stories are among the most valuable resources that the National Park Service preserves and protects for future generations. Listen to people who have made the Park Service what it is today.
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Bill Wade: Protecting Shenandoah Resources

lundi 30 janvier 2017 • Duration 06:01

In this episode, Bill Wade describes how he had to bend the rules to safeguard resources when he was superintendent of Shenandoah National Park in the 1980s. The result? Some admonishments; a few accolades; and a sense of a job well done. Thanks to the Association of National Park Rangers for this oral history collaboration with the Park History Program.

Meg Weesner on Community and Natural Resources

lundi 14 novembre 2016 • Duration 07:44

In the 1980s Meg Weesner was among a pioneer generation of women to move into Natural Resources Management in the National Park Service. During her career she discovered that collaboration with partners was the best way to preserve and protect valuable resources.

John Reynolds: Growing Up in the Parks

lundi 25 juillet 2016 • Duration 05:43

John Reynolds tells us what it was like to grow up in our national parks as the son of a park ranger. Listen as he shares childhood memories from Yellowstone and Theodore Roosevelt National Parks, and hear him discuss how these experiences shaped his own career with the National Park Service.

Bill Wade: Calling a national park home

samedi 9 juillet 2016 • Duration 07:10

What's it like to grow up in a national park? Retired NPS superintendent Bill Wade will tell you.

Laurel Boyers, NPS wilderness ranger

vendredi 1 juillet 2016 • Duration 05:07

In the 1970s Laurel Munson Boyers was among a pioneering generation of women who assumed new roles in the National Park Service. Listen to Boyers describe one frightful night as a wilderness ranger, stationed at Buck Camp.

Ranger JD Swed, a flathat, and a horse

mardi 14 juin 2016 • Duration 05:39

In this segment of "Centennial Voices," we hear how a disciplined mentor and a balky horse teach a seasonal National Park Service ranger the importance of his image as well as his duties.

Retired NPS Ranger JD Swed on family and work

lundi 13 juin 2016 • Duration 05:17

Retired Park Ranger J. D. Swed talks about how family life and work are inter-related in the National Park Service. Thanks to Nolan Edmondson, NPS volunteer, for audio production.

Retired NPS park ranger Butch Farabee

mercredi 4 mai 2016 • Duration 04:28

Butch Farabee was a revered National Park Service ranger who excelled in search and rescue. During a interview conducted in 2012 at the Association of National Park Rangers Ranger Rendezvous, he described how the demands of his job took a toll on family life

Sandra Weber: Doing A Job You Love

mercredi 19 octobre 2016 • Duration 06:53

In college Sandra Weber decided to major in a subject she loved--history. Following her passions and gifts led to a job at the Clara Barton National Historic Site, the first step in a career with the National Park Service.

Flo Six Townsend: Paying it forward

dimanche 2 octobre 2016 • Duration 09:08

Do you realize how many people it takes to make the National Park System work? Many are like Flo Six Townsend, who found her Park Service passion in career development and employee training. In 2013 we talked as part of the Association of National Park Rangers Oral History Project. Townsend reflected on her satisfaction is helping others advance their careers and how she herself discovered and developed her own talents in the National Park Service.

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