Wildlands News Podcast — National Parks, Public Lands & Survival

#013 - Grand Canyon, Part 1: The History | Deep Time, Eleven Tribes & the Fight to Protect It

Stand on the South Rim and you're looking at close to two billion years of Earth's history, stacked in visible layers — almost half the age of the planet, sliced open and

#012 - Field Skills: Wildlife Distance | Bison, Bears & Keeping the Margin

Ask most people the most dangerous animal in Yellowstone and they'll say grizzly. They're wrong — it's the bison, by a wide margin, and 80% of the people it injures walke

#011 - Yellowstone, Part 3: Where to Stay | The Old Faithful Inn, Lamar Lodges & Camping

Yellowstone has nine in-park lodges, more than two thousand rooms, and twelve campgrounds — and it still runs out of beds in July. This closes out the Wildlands Yellowsto

#010 - Yellowstone, Part 2: The Visit | Lamar Valley, Grand Prismatic & the Geyser Basins

Yellowstone covers two and a half million acres — bigger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined — and most visitors see a fraction of it from the Old Faithful parking lo

#009 - Yellowstone, Part 1: The History | The Supervolcano, the Nez Perce & the Wolves

Underneath Yellowstone sits one of the largest volcanic systems on Earth — a magma chamber the size of a small state. This is the longest history episode in the series, a

#008 - Field Skills: Flash Floods | Reading Water, Weather & Slot Canyons

Flash floods kill more people in the U.S. in an average year than lightning, tornadoes, or hurricanes — each one individually. This Field Skills episode is the survival c

#007 - Zion, Part 3: Where to Stay | Zion Lodge, Watchman & Free BLM Camping

Where to sleep, eat, and camp at Zion — the only park where your lodging choice ranges from a historic 1920s cabin inside the canyon to free dispersed camping on a mesa w

#006 - Zion, Part 2: The Visit | Angels Landing Permits, the Narrows & Beating the Crowds

Four and a half million people visit Zion a year, almost all of them packed into six miles of canyon with one road in and one road out. This is how to actually enjoy one

#005 - Zion, Part 1: The History | The Virgin River, Navajo Sandstone & the Fight Over the Name

How a thin silver thread of a river carved a canyon 2,600 feet deep through solid sandstone — and how that canyon went from an unknown monument with an unpronounceable na

#004 - Field Skills: Altitude | Reading Your Body Above 10,000 Feet

The thin air on a high summit is the single thing most likely to turn a great day into a dangerous one — and fitness won't save you from it. This Field Skills episode is

#003 - Great Basin, Part 3: Where to Stay | Campgrounds, Baker & Dark-Sky Lodging

Where to actually sleep at Great Basin National Park — the park with no lodge, no hotel inside the gates, and one of the darkest night skies in the country. This is the p

#002 - Great Basin, Part 2: The Visit | Lehman Caves Tours, Wheeler Peak & Dark Skies

Everything you need to actually visit Great Basin National Park — one of the most remote and least-crowded parks in the country. This is the practical guide: how to get t

#001 - Great Basin, Part 1: The History | Lehman Caves & the Oldest Trees on Earth

The story of Great Basin National Park — how a remote Nevada mountain came to hold a cave, a glacier, and the oldest living things on Earth. From the tropical sea that bu