Podcast

Sue Black, Director of Arizona State Parks, returns to the Park Leaders Show to talk about culture, visitation and the impact of parks on a state. You can hear her first interview HERE. Director Black offers compelling reasons why parks are important as whole to a state and individual parks to communities. It is not about […]

Sue Black, Director of Arizona State Parks, joins the Park Leaders Show to discuss creating a Gold Medal culture in parks. Arizona State Parks is celebrating its 60th anniversary. Director Black has a goal to win the National Parks and Recreation Association Gold Medal Award this year. Throughout her career, Director Black has set high goals […]

When the Director of Texas State Parks was a guest on the Park Leaders Show, he mentioned the Ambassador Program as one of the great things they were doing in Texas. Tyler Priest, the coordinator of the Program, joins the Park Leaders Show to tell us more about the program Director Leisure is so proud […]

James Slade grew up in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. Now, he is on the front line in Africa working as Operations Manager and ranger with the Zimbabwe International Anti-Poaching Foundation. James will give us an inside look at what it is like to be an anti-poaching ranger, and what the poaching situation is like in […]

Robert Ingram, Chief of Visitor Protection and Law Enforcement for Washington State Parks, joins the Park Leaders Show to discuss bike patrol in parks. Chieff Ingram was the driving force behind Washington State Parks bike patrol program. In this interview, he will share how the bike program was formed, how the agency chose the bikes and […]

The National Park Service is faced with a $12 billion deferred maintenance backlog.  How did we get here and what can we do about it? John Garder from the National Parks Conservation Association joins the Park Leaders Show to discuss how the maintenance backlog grew so large and what we can do about it. The maintenance backlog […]

One of the things I learned at the World Ranger Congress is that parks all over the world have the same problems. Teemu Laine and Vesa-Matti Hillberg, both park rangers from Finland, join the Park Leaders Show to share their experience at the World Ranger Congress and what they have learned as park rangers. This […]

Brent Leisure, Director of Texas State Parks, returns for another episode of the Park Leaders Show. This episode is short enough it could have easily been included on the first episode with Director Leisure. This conversation is a separate episode because it needs to be a separate conversation. We need to support parks at all […]

Texas is big. If you haven’t been to Texas you have seen it on a map. No matter how you look at the state, it is big. The enormous geographic size creates a challenge when it comes to communicating to staff if they are spread across the state. Brent Leisure, Director of Texas State Parks Brent Leisure, […]

Joseph Mayombo wants you to know about the National Parks of Gabon. Joseph wants everyone to know about Gabon National Parks. Gabon has one of the newest National Park Systems in the world.  The World Ranger Congress was a perfect place for Rangers from Gabon to interact and exchange ideas with other Rangers from around […]