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Podcast: Slate History
Episode: What Next | Gutting Our National Parks
Description: From the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate Bridge, and places in between like Yellowstone and the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, the National Park Service has been a point of American pride since its inception. And with a small budget and actually generating revenue, even fiscal hawks had no reason to complain.Â
So why is the Trump administration cutting their budget?Â
Guests:
Jon B. Jarvis,18th director of the National Parks and executive director for the Institute for Parks, People and Biodiversity at UC Berkeley.
Kevin Heatley, former su...