Jasper National Park
from Yell Parks Pod
This is Yell Parks Pod, a podcast where your hosts yell about the parks, nature, and beauty of the world that surrounds us. Welcome to our Halloween episode! This time we’re discussing the beautiful Jasper National Park. Our topics include Dark Sky Parks, a couple of endangered bat species, and the Athabasca Glacier melt. Land Acknowledgement: Jasper National Park is on First Nations land that belongs to the Nakoda, Cree, Secwépemc, Métis, and Dane-zaa. Listeners are encouraged to learn more at native-land.ca Next Episode: Petrified Forest National Park Contact Us: [email protected] or @YellParksPod on twitter This Episode’s Hosts: Ellory (they/them) Hawk (she/her) Nic (they/them) Ole (e/em or they/them) Credits: Our intro and outro music is the song Elsewhere... courtesy of Furgat. Ey can be found at twitter.com/furgat Research assistance provided by Hawk Editing by Ellory Transcript by Adam Episode description by Nic Transcripts and sources for each episode are hosted on our Google Drive. You can find links and the transcript for this episode here Dark Sky Parks (06:04) What is a Dark Sky Park? Why do Dark Sky Parks matter? Jasper Dark Sky Festival Correction: at 18:00 Ellory says “Cree mythology.” They flagged this during editing and after discussing it, we believe it would be more accurate and appropriate to say “Cree beliefs.” My apologies! –E Endangered Bats/Threatened Nightjar Feature (21:25) Species at Risk Act (SARA) Northern Myotis Bats/Little Brown Myotis Bats White Nose Syndrome Common Nighthawk Athabasca Glacier (47:23) Glacial Melt Cause of Glacial Melt Global Impact Pictures Showing Extent of Glacial Melt Shout Outs Keepers of the Water: https://www.keepersofthewater.ca/ Royal Astronomical Society of Canada: https://rasc.ca/lpa/resources Vote! US elections are November 8th, 2022: vote.gov Current nature events Global Bat Week: https://batweek.org/ Aotearoa Bird of the Year Contest: https://www.birdoftheyear.org.nz
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