More on National Parks, and the forestry service

This episode of Fresh Air is a great addition to the previous posting about National Parks. It describes a wildfire from 1910 which burned an area the size of Connecticut over the course of a weekend, and discusses how that fire saved our National Lands, yet permanently transformed the way we treat them.

It also has some great tales about Teddy Roosevelt wrestling and skinny dipping (not at the same time).

This episode is no longer available on itunes, but you can listen now.

National Parks

Here's another great episode from 'To the Best of our Knowledge.' This one is about National Parks, how they started, why they're so great, and Indians whom were sadly removed from many of the parks. I would have never imagined that they could have made the topic of National Parks so interesting, but voila! This podcast makes me want to go camping.

Listen now, or download it on itunes. The itunes release date was 8/28/10.