Parks & Travel

Located in the heart of Central California’s valley region, Tulare County is home to Sequoia and King Canyon National Parks, Giant Sequoia National Monument and Sequoia National Forest. Focusing on Summer Fun in California's Sequoia Country, this Big Blend Radio episode features guests from Sequoia Tourism Council include:
- Gary Rogers - Sequoia Parks Conservancy
- Sandy Blankenship - Exeter Chamber-of Commerce
- Donnette Silva Carter - Tulare Chamber of Commerce
- Suzanne Bianco - Visalia Convention and Visitors Bureau
Learn more: https://nationalparktraveling.com/listing/summer-fun-in-californias-sequoia-country/

Featured music is "Mori (Forest Song)" from the Yuna album by www.Yagull.com

Big Blend Radio panel discussion on National Heritage Areas featuring Alan Spears - Director of Cultural Resources in the Government Affairs department at National Parks Conservation Association; Lowell Perry Jr. - Executive Director of the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area; and Yvonne Peach - Owner of Coronado Motor Hotel and Yuma Landing Bar & Grill, and Founder of the Yuma Historical Society Museum of Aviation Tourism.
Featured music is "Colors of the USA" by Doreen Taylor.

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Arizona National History Day is a program that makes history come alive for students and teachers by engaging them in the discovery of the historical, cultural, scientific, and social experiences of the past. Students Drew Devine and Vir Dolasa-Sahani discuss their project for this year, “Collision Over the Canyon”. Educator and ambassador Stacey Trepanier, along with parents Julie Devine and Navaz Dolasa, also join the discussion.

This is a Love Your Parks Tour Youth Success Story assigned by Bobbi DePorter of www.SuperCamp.com

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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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