How Wild

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Been camping or hiking in a national park this summer? It's pretty wild right now. In the midst of their busiest season, national parks and other public lands are under-staffed and facing massive budget cuts.

Former National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis spoke with How Wild's Marissa Ortega-Welch about the threats to public lands right now and shared his insights from forty years of working within the agency.

This interview was recorded live at KALW Public Media on July 22, 2025.

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Noticed any changes to signs in your local national park?

An exhibit at California's Muir Woods National Monument was recently edited because of a Trump executive order banning any types of content — like exhibits, signs, books in the gift shop — that "inappropriately disparage" people in American history.

This isn't the first time that a national park exhibit has been affected because of Trump's policies though and park rangers and historians are speaking out.

This interview first aired on KALW's Crosscurrents on July 31, 2025.

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It's wild times, y'all. Just as we're getting ready to go hiking and camping this summer, national parks and forests are facing the biggest staff and budget cuts in history under the Trump administration. In this interview, How Wild host Marissa Ortega-Welch shares what she's been hearing from park and forest rangers, biologists, and custodians about how these cuts will impact the nation's public lands.

This interview originally aired on KALW Public Media's Crosscurrents on May 15, 2025.

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It may not be designated capital "W" wilderness, but the ocean is an incredibly wild place.

We're sharing an episode about the ocean from The Wild with Chris Morgan, produced by our friends at KUOW. The Wild is about the wonders of our natural world and the people working to protect it. On this episode, Chris takes us to Biscayne National Park off the coast of Florida to see how scientists are trying to restore one of the world's largest coral reefs.

If you like this episode, find more at https://omny.fm/shows/the-wild-with-chris-morgan

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