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Shuttered National Parks Traveler editor talks Trump pressures, media struggles
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Two decades later, Repanshek’s National Parks Traveler had established itself as a one-stop destination for all things national parks — from enterprise pieces about climate change and invasive species to tidbits on Yellowstone bison gorings and watchdog journalism about staff morale under Trump administration cuts.
National Parks Traveler Editor Kurt Repanshek talks with John Cely in Congaree National Park, South Carolina.
“It’s a tragic derailment of the park service mission, the park service role, and I don’t know how long it’s going to take to recover.”
A critical chapterA common misconception was that as editor of National Parks Traveler, Repanshek was often on the move to locales like Montana’s Glacier National Park or the Florida Everglades.
Kurt Repanshek, founder of the publication National Parks Traveler, peers out of Cunningham Cabin in Grand Teton National Park.