© 2024 KSUT Public Radio
NPR News and Music Discovery for the Four Corners
Donate
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Record Crowds And A Growing List Of Challenges As America's National Parks Turn 100

Published August 22, 2016 at 10:20 AM MDT

The National Park Service is planning a huge celebration this week in Yellowstone to honor the centennial of the America’s park system. Visits are booming, but American parks are also facing problems, including a multi-billion dollar maintenance backlog.

Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson discusses with parks director Jonathan Jarvis.

Hear more from Here & Now‘s national parks tour.

Guest

Jonathan Jarvis, director of the National Park Service. He tweets @JonsMoustache. The park service tweets @NatlParkService.

Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

Jonathan Jarvis, director of the National Park Service, speaks at the Gettysburg Battlefield in March 2011. (Civil War Trust/Flickr)
/
Jonathan Jarvis, director of the National Park Service, speaks at the Gettysburg Battlefield in March 2011. (Civil War Trust/Flickr)