This season of Headwaters is a six-episode exploration of the 20th century history of Glacier National Park—asking what it really means to belong here.

Lacy: [music] Headwaters is brought to you by the Glacier National Park Conservancy. Peri: Headwaters is a podcast about how Glacier National Park is connected to everything else. [building synth] Dr. Stephen Pyne: This was an agency wide trauma. Dr. Turkiya Lowe: The CCC mandated that there be no discrimination based on race, which at the time was absolutely bold. [drumbeat starts] Peri: We tell natural and cultural stories about the role that national parks play in the American project. Brian Lipscomb: This is an important cultural site for us. This is a powerful place for us as Tribal people. And you're going to put a dam here. Director Robert Stanton: [tense building synth] I lived my first 23 years of that insidious doctrine of separate but equal. Dr. Turkiya Lowe: This season of Headwaters is a six-episode exploration of the 20th century history of Glacier National Park, asking what it really means to belong here. Dr. Shawn Bailey: Change any one variable. And I think there's a there's a decent chance this dam gets built. Suzanne Nobles: Environmental groups felt like natural spaces were essentially just being... trounced. Marc Johnson: There was no year that was more tumultuous than 1941. Titus Peachey: There were large numbers of people who had deeply held religious convictions against the war. [music fades out] Marc Johnson: He was making common cause with anybody. [building tense synth] He did not do nearly enough to distance himself from the anti-Semitic [drumbeat starts] attitudes that gripped a portion of the America First movement. Jane Kapler Smith: People were astounded and I think also terrified. Peri: This season is called Switchback. It's about moments when history's path took a turn. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts. Mary Ann Donovan: I did come across a tarred-over amphibian. [laughs] Daniel: Oh wow. Like it had gotten run over, and then had gotten paved over. Mary Ann Donovan: Had gotten tarr—paved over. Daniel: Wow. Music: [music fades out]