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Grand Teton's White on National Park Service Turning 100(Audio) · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 1: Symposium on Bloomberg Radio. Jackson Hole Symposium, Yes, and the
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  Speaker 1: Grand Teton National Park two things that are intertwined this week.
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  Speaker 1: And here to tell us more about Grand Teton National
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  Speaker 1: Park as Andrew White. He is the assistant public Affairs
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  Speaker 1: officer and he joins us from Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Andrew White,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much for being with us. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: having me. Then let's begin by just taking a step back.
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  Speaker 1: This is the one or yesterday was the one hundredth
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  Speaker 1: anniversary of the National Park Service. Tell us a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more about how you came to be part of
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  Speaker 1: the Park Service and what that means to you. Sure, so,
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  Speaker 1: my personal story started about rule Really it started about
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  Speaker 1: twenty years ago as a as a child coming up
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  Speaker 1: and visiting national parks like Grand Teton on with my
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  Speaker 1: parents as always the big family vacation thing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: load up the van and visit the national parks. Six
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  Speaker 1: years ago I was lucky enough to be invited to
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  Speaker 1: be an intern at Grand Teton National Park, actually as
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  Speaker 1: a ranger interpreter out in the field, visiting with visitors,
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  Speaker 1: talking about the park resources and really helping them understand
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  Speaker 1: what they were seeing. Now, if you were in the
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  Speaker 1: park today or even yesterday as someone out in the field,
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  Speaker 1: you'd be talking about wildfires because I understand that if
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  Speaker 1: you take a look at the lake, Jackson Lake, if
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  Speaker 1: you're on the shore of Jackson Lake in the Grand
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  Speaker 1: Teton National Park and you're going to see the berry fire,
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  Speaker 1: tell us the extent of fires right now in the park. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So part of our centennial celebration, I guess, is nature
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  Speaker 1: strowing us a little party with the wildfires. Some people
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  Speaker 1: put candles on the birthday cake, but we're having a wildfire. Um.
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  Speaker 1: It was caused by lightning back in July. Actually, it
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  Speaker 1: had been burning in remote wilderness areas of the park
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  Speaker 1: for a number of weeks, and then this past week
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  Speaker 1: and a significant wind event came and actually carried across
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Lake and closed Highway eighty nine, which is the
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  Speaker 1: main artery connecting Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. So
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  Speaker 1: it certainly created some some degree of travel difficulties for
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  Speaker 1: folks trying to connect the two parks, but both of
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  Speaker 1: the parks are open. Um, we encourage people to to
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  Speaker 1: certainly celebrate the centennial and the Yellowstone or Grand Teton
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  Speaker 1: National Parks as most of our visitor areas are open.
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  Speaker 1: Is there any relationship to the ability to keep the
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  Speaker 1: park in its in it's a high condition and to
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  Speaker 1: deal with these ongoing and natural events like the wildfires
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  Speaker 1: as you describe, is the is the challenge also that
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  Speaker 1: the funding is is an issue, well not really when
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  Speaker 1: we talk about wildfire. Part of managing a national park
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  Speaker 1: is is managing and protecting the natural processes and wildfire
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  Speaker 1: like the berry fire that was was caused by lightning,
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  Speaker 1: UM is a natural process and where where we can
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  Speaker 1: allow it to continue to to put its natural role
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  Speaker 1: in the ecosystem, we wanted to continue to play that role.
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  Speaker 1: You know, wildfire will renew a landscape, UM, it creates
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  Speaker 1: new wildlife habitat UM. Some trees and plants actually depend
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  Speaker 1: on wildfire to to regenerate UM. So we're where we
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  Speaker 1: can we certainly allow those fires to burn and m
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  Speaker 1: want them to play their their natural role. Now when
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  Speaker 1: it comes into more developed there is that's when we
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  Speaker 1: have to take suppression action. So this is kind of
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  Speaker 1: a complex fire where in some areas we might be
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  Speaker 1: suppressing it or containing it. In other areas we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to to burn into the wilderness and play its role.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that there's a lot of deferred maintenance though
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  Speaker 1: in the whole National Park Service, not just obviously we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about the Teton National Park. You've got corporate sponsorships.
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  Speaker 1: How do you sort of manage the corporate sponsorships is
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  Speaker 1: as well as any of the funding issues that might
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  Speaker 1: affect your ability to do your job as best you can,
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  Speaker 1: sure Penn. So we have a two or twenty two
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  Speaker 1: million dollar maintenance back just here at Grand Teton National Park,
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  Speaker 1: which is obviously significant, and most of that is in roads,
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  Speaker 1: utility systems, buildings, uh, all that require maintenance in our
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  Speaker 1: overdue for that maintenance. UM. One of the ways that
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  Speaker 1: we we can help remedy some of that is through
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  Speaker 1: private philanthropy. We have a very significant partner here, the
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  Speaker 1: Grand Teton National Park Foundation, which helps us really provide
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  Speaker 1: that margin of survival and that margin of excellence when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to funding. Actually, tonight we're gonna be celebrating
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  Speaker 1: the end of a fourteen million dollar capital campaign that
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  Speaker 1: they've undertook UM to help renew the Genny Lake area,
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  Speaker 1: which is the most visited area in Grand Teetown National Park.
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  Speaker 1: They also help us with a number of education programs
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  Speaker 1: and wildlife research UM And right now they're actually helping
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  Speaker 1: fundraise for private inholding. Are actually a piece of land
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  Speaker 1: that's owned by the state of Wyoming UM that we
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  Speaker 1: would like to acquire for for National park lands, and
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  Speaker 1: they're helping fundraise for that. So private philanthropy is definitely
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  Speaker 1: a big piece of funding in the National Parks. Well,
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  Speaker 1: just to put this into perspective, I understand that funding
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  Speaker 1: for the National Parks is less than a tenth of
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  Speaker 1: a percent of overall federal spending. And to your point
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  Speaker 1: about donations from the private sector, uh, David Rubinstein of
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  Speaker 1: the Carlisle Group, he gave about seven and a half
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  Speaker 1: million dollars to shore up the earthquake Washington Monument in Washington,
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  Speaker 1: d c. And also a nearly twenty million to restore
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  Speaker 1: the Lincoln Memorial. What do you say to people that
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  Speaker 1: may want to get involved in helping to maintain and
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  Speaker 1: refurbish our National Park Service. Absolutely, David Rubinstein is a
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  Speaker 1: great example of that. There are a number of friends
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  Speaker 1: groups throughout the National Park Servicemen of the bigger national
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  Speaker 1: parks that Grand Teatown Yelstone will have foundations devoted specifically
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  Speaker 1: to that national park. There's also the National Park Foundation
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  Speaker 1: that works on the national scale UM, so folks can
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  Speaker 1: definitely get involved with the National Park Foundation. UM and
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  Speaker 1: I would say that the national parks are great investment. UM.
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  Speaker 1: For every ten dollars or excuse me, um, for every
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  Speaker 1: one doll that's spent on operations in the National Park Service,
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  Speaker 1: we returned ten dollars to the local economy. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: in visitors to grant the Atenne National Granteeton National Park
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  Speaker 1: spent five sixty million dollars UM in the gateway communities
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  Speaker 1: in this area, so certainly an economic bon for local communities.
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank you very much for spending time
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  Speaker 1: with us, and happy birthday to the National Park Service.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew White is the Assistant Public Affairs Officer of Grand
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  Speaker 1: Teton National Park, joining us from Jackson Hole, Wyoming and
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  Speaker 1: uh if you want, there is a photograph of Mr
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  Speaker 1: White stepping from his Subaru outbrack donated to the Grand
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  Speaker 1: Team Todd National Park last year by the National Park
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  Speaker 1: Foundation and Subaru of America on their National Park Service website.
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