Lowell Perry Jr, Executive Director of the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area, discusses the history, sites and activities of downtown Yuma, Arizona’s Colorado Riverfront area including the East and West Wetlands, Territorial Prison and Colorado River State Park. More at www.YumaHeritage.com

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Thomas Winston and Shasta Grenier Winston, the husband and wife directorial team behind EPIC YELLOWSTONE from Grizzly Creek Films, talk about the making of this eagerly anticipated Smithsonian Channel series, that offers a front row seat to the extraordinary spectacle of wildlife and dramatic seasonal extremes in the iconic crown jewel of America’s national parks. Hosted by renowned actor and Montana local Bill Pullman, and filmed over the course of three years, the series delivers stories from Yellowstone never told before. www.GrizzlyCreekFilms.com
Featured music is "Mori (The Forest Song)" by Yagull.com.

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Travel writer, author, and outdoor adventurer Stacey Wittig shares her adventures in beautiful Saguenay Fjord National Park in Quebec, Canada. You could spend weeks exploring the vast 78,900-acre park while crossing back and forth over the convergences of sea and fresh water, traversing around edges of mind-blowing geological formations and crisscrossing the fine line of where culture has eked outposts in the Canadian wilderness over the past three hundred and fifty years. See her article: https://nationalparktraveling.com/listing/saguenay-fjord-national-park-spanning-boundaries/
Featured music is "The Climb" by Evren Ozan - www.OzanMusic.com
This episode is sponsored by the International Food Wine Travel Writers Association - www.IFWTWA.org

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Travel writer Nancy Mueller, publisher of www.WanderBoomer.com, talks about her Newfoundland park experiences including Derm Flynn Riverfront Peace Park, John Cabot Municipal Park and Dungeon Provincial Park. Featured music is "On The Bay" by the Walk-A-Bout Band.
This episode is sponsored by the International Food Wine & Travel Writers Association - www.IFWTWA.org.

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Wildlife Refuge Specialist Joshua Smith provides an overview of Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge and discusses its wonderful wildflower season that runs from early spring until the end of fall. Located approx. 60 miles south of Tucson, the 117,500+ acre Refuge is a spectacular bird and wildlife watching destination that offers beautiful nature walks through riparian corridors, scenic dirt road drives through rolling grasslands frequented by pronghorn and mule deer, 200 miles of back country hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding trails, as well as primitive style camping under the stars. More: https://nationalparktraveling.com/listing/wildflower-wonderland-in-buenos-aires-nwr/
Podcast is sponsored by www.CarreraFineArt.com
Featured music is 'Time to Go' by www.BorgoBand.com

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Suzanne Moody, Park Ranger-Interpretation at Chiricahua National Monument in Southeast Arizona shares the story of the Erickson family. Faraway Ranch was built in 1888 by Swedish immigrants Neil and Emma Erickson. Full story and video, here: https://nationalparktraveling.com/listing/faraway-ranch/

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Photographer Sarah Weeden talks about her National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF) artist-in-residence experience in Death Valley National Park, the hottest and driest place in North America due to its lack of surface water and low relief. NPAF founder Tanya Ortega talks about the organization’s creates extraordinary and unique artist-in-residence programs within the National Park Service and other park destinations. More at www.SWeeden.us and www.NationalParksArtsFoundation.org
Featured music is ‘Sands of Time’ by the www.BayStationBand.com

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From Atchafalaya to Big Cypress, Cape Hatteras, Norris Dam and Merritt Island, travel writer Kathleen Walls discusses five record-breaking parks built around waterways. A member of the International Food, Wine & & Travel Writer Association (www.IFWTWA.org), Kathleen is publisher/writer for American Roads and Global Highways at www.AmericanRoads.net.
Featured music on this episode is "Bottom of the Bayou" by Jon Roniger & The Good For Nothin' Band - www.TheGoodForNothinBand.com

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World champion horse trainer Christy Wood along with Faun O'Neel with The Independence Fund, discuss the All-Terrain Wheelchair for a returning veteran fundraising campaign, which includes the new I LOVE MY PARKS Bald Eagle T-shirt. The t-shirt supports Big Blend's Love Your Parks Tour, plus, 25% percent of the proceeds benefits the All-Terrain Wheelchair Campaign; and, 25% of the proceeds also benefits the National Parks Arts Foundation in support of their artist-in-residence and artist workshop programs in parks. It's available in all kinds of styles, colors and sizes! Check it out at www.Bonfire.com/bald-eagle
Featured music is 'Colors of the USA' by www.DoreenTaylorMusic.com

Bobbi DePorter, Co-founder of SuperCamp, President of Quantum Learning Network and creator of the 8 Keys of Excellence, discusses Youth Success and sends Nancy J. Reid & Lisa D. Smith on a story mission on their Love Your Parks Tour. The story mission is to document youth success stories across the country including the accomplishments and achievements of youth as well as their communities. www.LoveYourParksTour.com