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Trailer: A New Show From Inside the Parks · Ranger PamPaw's Park Report

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  SPEAKER_00: Every week, something happens in a national park that makes the news.
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  SPEAKER_00: A closure, a budget fight, a rescue, a new superintendent nobody's heard of.
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  SPEAKER_00: And most of the time the coverage tells you what happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't tell you why, and it doesn't tell you what it means for the people who work there or the people who visit.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Mark Tutzel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some folks know me as Ranger Pampaul.
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  SPEAKER_00: I spent nearly four decades with the National Park Service.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the field, in management, and in the rooms where the decisions got made.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm retired now, which means I can finally tell you what I actually think.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is Ranger Pampa's Park Report.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ten minutes every other Wednesday on the news from the parks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Three stories that matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then a segment I'm calling the Ranger's Chair.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's where I step out of the reporting and tell you how it looks from the inside.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll keep those two things separate.
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  SPEAKER_00: You'll always know which one you're hearing.
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  SPEAKER_00: A couple of promises.
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  SPEAKER_00: This show is independent.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't speak for the Park Service.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't have an axe to grind with it either.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I get something wrong and I will, I'll say so.
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  SPEAKER_00: Out loud at the top of the next episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not here to tell you the parks are doomed or that everything's fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mostly the truth is in between.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's more interesting there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Got a question or something you saw on your last park trip that just didn't add up?
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  SPEAKER_00: Send it to parknews at rangerpampall.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: The good ones end up on the show.
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  SPEAKER_00: First episode drops Wednesday, September 23rd at noon central.
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  SPEAKER_00: Subscribe now so it's waiting for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Mark Tetzel.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you in the parks.