Maddie Pellman interviews our National Park Superintendents to discover more about our Great National Parks and to uncover the heroes behind each National Park. In each episode, superintendents share their hearts for protecting and preserving our national treasures, highlighting stories of adventure, joy and determination, ensuring our Parks are a place for everyone to come and experience the magic of stories and of nature. Each show will leave you inspired and more appreciative of all that goes into running our National Parks. We will warn you though, you may have a few more parks to your bucket list after listening to these stories.
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Maddie Pellman interviews our National Park Superintendents to discover more about our Great National Parks and to uncover the heroes behind each National Park. In each episode, superintendents share their hearts for protecting and preserving our national treasures, highlighting stories of adventure, joy and determination, ensuring our Parks are a place for everyone to come and experience the magic of stories and of nature. Each show will leave you inspired and more appreciative of all that goes into running our National Parks. We will warn you though, you may have a few more parks to your bucket list after listening to these stories.
New episodes every Tuesday for free.
You can follow Who Runs This Park on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook or YouTube and can email us at info@whorunsthispark.com.
Yosemite National Park Superintendent: Cicely Muldoon & Yosemite Conservancy President: Frank Dean
Who Runs This Park
44 minutes
11 months ago
Yosemite National Park Superintendent: Cicely Muldoon & Yosemite Conservancy President: Frank Dean
A special in-person episode, recorded at the National Park Friends Alliance Fall Meeting, featuring Yosemite Conservancy President & CEO Frank Dean and Yosemite National Park Superintendent Cicely Muldoon. Frank and Cicely provide a unique moment for Who Runs This Park by showcasing the incredible partnership between Yosemite and the Yosemite Conservancy, offering insights into the vital relationships between national parks and their friends groups.
This fun and laughter-filled conversation takes you behind the scenes of some fascinating stories, including the origins of the Starbucks in Yosemite Valley. We discuss the evolving and improving relationship between Yosemite and climbers (timely, as it's Rocktober!), the challenges and rewards of managing a park with over 800 miles of trails—including the iconic John Muir Trail (JMT) and Pacific Crest Trail (PCT)—and the significance of Yosemite as the birthplace of the conservation movement, where "it all began" for the National Park Service.
We also explore the power of leading with empathy and humor, reflect on Cicely's 40 years of service with the Park Service, and reminisce about Frank and Cicely’s friendship, which began nearly 35 years ago during the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Alaska.
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Who Runs This Park
Maddie Pellman interviews our National Park Superintendents to discover more about our Great National Parks and to uncover the heroes behind each National Park. In each episode, superintendents share their hearts for protecting and preserving our national treasures, highlighting stories of adventure, joy and determination, ensuring our Parks are a place for everyone to come and experience the magic of stories and of nature. Each show will leave you inspired and more appreciative of all that goes into running our National Parks. We will warn you though, you may have a few more parks to your bucket list after listening to these stories.
New episodes every Tuesday for free.
You can follow Who Runs This Park on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook or YouTube and can email us at info@whorunsthispark.com.
