National Park News | Park Service Morale Low, Investigative Ranger Ranks Dangerously Low

America’s National Parks Podcast

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Science, Nature, Places & Travel, Society & Culture:places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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In this month's news round-up, we take a look at some concerns about the ranks of National Park Service employees: morale is lower than that of other federal employees, and Park Service criminal investigators are down by nearly half. Plus, actor Pierce Brosnan has been busted for going off-trail in a thermal area of Yellowstone, a Mexican Wolf has been spotted in Valles Caldera after nearly 100 years away, and more. Visit LLBean.com to find great gear for exploring the national parks. Use promo code PARKS20 to get $20 off your next purchase of $200 or more at solostove.com.

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0:44.0	I'm Jason Epperson. This is the America's National Parks podcast
0:52.0	and it's time for this month's National Park News round
0:54.8	up.
0:56.3	The Guinness Book of World Records has certified 92-year-old Alfredo Burdio as the oldest person to cross the Grand Canyon rim to rim on foot.
1:06.5	The Spanish-born resident of Berlin said that he only began leading a healthy lifestyle in
1:11.9	his 70s.
1:13.0	Burdio had hiked the Grand Canyon several times
1:16.0	before his rim-to-rim undertaking in October.
1:19.0	He got the idea to attempt to become the oldest to finish the trek
1:22.0	after hearing about the previous record holder only a year younger
1:25.7	than him who made the 24 mile journey back in March.
1:29.5	Burdio trained for his record attempt by walking 8 miles a day and had to cancel his first attempt due to heavy
1:35.3	snowfall, but then in October he embarked on the record setting hike with his daughter,
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