The first episode of Ranger PamPaw's Park Report. Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly is leaving the National Park Service after nearly eight years running the flagship park. Congress has funded the government through December 11, pushing a nasty park budget fight into the lame-duck session. A second flash flood set back Grand Canyon's water recovery, and the park now says South Rim water returns around Thanksgiving. And the Pretty Rocks bridge in Denali is finally complete, five years after a landslide cut the park road in half. Plus: from the ranger's chair, what Sholly's departure says about brain drain at the Park Service. And Fat Bear Week is here.

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Every week, something happens in a national park that makes the news. Most coverage tells you what happened. This show tells you why.

Ranger PamPaw's Park Report is a ten-minute news show from Mark Tezel, a retired National Park Service ranger with nearly forty years on the job. Three stories that matter, then the Ranger's Chair: how it looks from the inside.

First episode Wednesday, September 23, at noon Central. Subscribe now so it's waiting for you.

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