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by Liz Crandall
A podcast for those who love Public Lands and Rangers who serve them. Hosted by Liz Crandall and co-created by Mikayla Moors.
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You may recognize him from his quirky Instagram/Tiktok reels - the man known for creating quality, local artist-driven conservation tees: Jim Morris! Jim Morris is the founder of Boulder-based Jim Morris Environmental & Wildlife T-Shirt Co. Since 1976, he has been screen-printing eco-friendly tees to raise environmental awareness and support conservation efforts. A few years ago, Jim became an internet sensation, affectionately dubbed the "internet's grandpa" for his contagious passion for nature.Jim is always wearing a wildlife-themed tee from his shop and viewers have become drawn to clips of Morris, in his late 70's, catching frogs at a nearby pond or observing herons through his binoculars. But the most heartwarming thing about Jim is his deep love for nature.Jim and Liz talk about his upbringing in Wisconsin, his mountaineering and skiing adventures, how he helped save beached whales in Florida, what it means to open your senses to nature, and the process of creating his wildlife tees. Jim even shows Liz a physical display of how to cross a stream safely! Order your wildlife tee to support local artists and conservation organizations: jimmorris.com.Follow Jim on Instagram: @jimmorristees.Follow Jim on TikTok: @jimmorristees.Follow ROTLP on Instagram: @rangersofthelostpark.Follow ROTLP on TikTok: @rangersofthelostpark.Join Patreon! Become a Ranger Friend for bonus content and to join an incredible community.Now available on YouTube! Watch Rangers of the Lost Park select episodes.Got a cool Ranger Tea story? Want Liz to share your interesting outdoors story on the podcast? Fill out the Listener Story Form!Have a question for Liz? Want her to answer it on an episode? Fill out the Listener Question Form!Do you know someone who would make a great guest on the podcast (yourself included)? Fill out the Podcast Guest Request Form!For episode suggestions and feedback, please email Liz at info@rangersofthelostpark.com.Please download, subscribe, and leave a review! Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
In this episode, Eli Henderson of The Ground Between Us Podcast sits down with Liz Crandall of Rangers of the Lost Park Podcast to explore how a passion for wilderness can grow into a lifelong commitment to conservation and public lands advocacy.Liz shares the experiences that shaped her connection to the outdoors and led her to dedicate her career to protecting public lands. From her work in Yellowstone to her advocacy for places like Dolly Sods, we discuss the importance of stewardship, the challenges facing public lands, and the responsibility we all share in preserving these landscapes for future generations.This conversation is about more than conservation policy. It's about developing a deeper relationship with the natural world, finding purpose through service, and understanding why wild places are worth fighting for.Subjects covered include:Public lands conservation and advocacyWilderness stewardshipYellowstone and Dolly SodsBuilding a career in conservationEnvironmental education and outreachConnecting people with natureStewardship and outdoor ethicsProtecting wild places for future generationsConnect with The Ground Between Us📧 thegroundbetweenus@gmail.com📸 https://www.instagram.com/thegroundbetweenus📘 https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61585112773537📺 https://www.youtube.com/@thegroundbetweenus🎵 https://www.tiktok.com/@thegroundbetweenusMusic licensed through Soundstripe.Code: ECMVUU9K35XVZRPUFollow ROTLP on Instagram: @rangersofthelostpark.Follow ROTLP on TikTok: @rangersofthelostpark.Join Patreon! Become a Ranger Friend for bonus content and to join an incredible community.Now available on YouTube! Watch Rangers of the Lost Park select episodes.Got a cool Ranger Tea story? Want Liz to share your interesting outdoors story on the podcast? Fill out the Listener Story Form!Have a question for Liz? Want her to answer it on an episode? Fill out the Listener Question Form!Do you know someone who would make a great guest on the podcast (yourself included)? Fill out the Podcast Guest Request Form!For episode suggestions and feedback, please email Liz at info@rangersofthelostpark.com.Please download, subscribe, and leave a review! Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
This week's guest is someone who has a wonderful sense of humor, tenacity in conservation work and is a young person trying to do good for nature. Her name is Nancy Nan, or Nance. Nance graduated from UCLA in 2024 with a bachelor’s of arts in Geography and Sociology. She is originally from North Carolina, but has done work in Arizona with the US forest service and Arizona Conservation Corp before moving to Hawai'i. Most of Nance’s conservation work experiences are with fire mitigation, recreation and environmental education. In her free time, Nance likes to do anything creative, from making music to crocheting. Nance publicly ranks the many conservation jobs she’s had so people can see a glimpse into her life as a field employee on her social media account @n.ansees. Her style is humorous, with photos of her laying on a pickup bed of weeds she trimmed, kneeling in streams for restoration projects, and scrubbing a turtle with a toothbrush!Nance is Gen-Z, and many of us paying attention know that the lack of conservation jobs and swath of economic hardships do not set up younger generations in the United States for success. Yet, she is someone who is striving against all odds, and giving back to the environment. And, she’s doing it joyfully.Follow Nance on Instagram for fun conservation content: @n.ansees.Follow ROTLP on Instagram: @rangersofthelostpark.Follow ROTLP on TikTok: @rangersofthelostpark.Join Patreon! Become a Ranger Friend for bonus content and to join an incredible community.Now available on YouTube! Watch Rangers of the Lost Park select episodes.Got a cool Ranger Tea story? Want Liz to share your interesting outdoors story on the podcast? Fill out the Listener Story Form!Have a question for Liz? Want her to answer it on an episode? Fill out the Listener Question Form!Do you know someone who would make a great guest on the podcast (yourself included)? Fill out the Podcast Guest Request Form!For episode suggestions and feedback, please email Liz at info@rangersofthelostpark.com.Please download, subscribe, and leave a review! Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Who knew learning history could be so fun?! Will DeMan (known as "NationalParkHistory") is a Michigan-based educator, writer, and public land advocate. His content on Instagram and Substack combines history and advocacy to help his audience understand and respond to the many issues our public lands and national parks are facing. He is the author of two books on the origin stories of the national parks, with his most recent book focusing on Yellowstone, Glacier, and Grand Teton. Will has partnered with The Wilderness Society, Protect the Porkies, and other outdoors creators to defend national monuments, protect state parks, and keep public lands in public hands. He is a recent graduate of the 2026 Trust Creator Fellowship with News Creator Corp.Tune in to hear cool facts and stories about National Parks, a spooky story in Shenandoah National Park, why defending public lands and history is so important, and more!Follow Will DeMan on Instagram: @nationalparkhistory.Check out Will's Substack: National Park History. Order your copy of Will's newest book Creating the National Parks: Yellowstone, Glacier and Grand Teton. Order Will's super cool National Park History merch!Follow ROTLP on Instagram: @rangersofthelostpark.Follow ROTLP on TikTok: @rangersofthelostpark.Join Patreon! Become a Ranger Friend for bonus content and to join an incredible community.Now available on YouTube! Watch Rangers of the Lost Park select episodes.Got a cool Ranger Tea story? Want Liz to share your interesting outdoors story on the podcast? Fill out the Listener Story Form!Have a question for Liz? Want her to answer it on an episode? Fill out the Listener Question Form!Do you know someone who would make a great guest on the podcast (yourself included)? Fill out the Podcast Guest Request Form!For episode suggestions and feedback, please email Liz at info@rangersofthelostpark.com.Please download, subscribe, and leave a review! Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
The Moab to Monument Valley Film Commission (located in Moab, Utah), the longest-running film commission, started in 1949 to help facilitate John Ford movies that were going there. Since then, over 200 films have been shot in the area on - you guessed it - public lands!Bega Metzner, the Film Commission Director for the Moab to Monument Valley Film Commission, makes sure everyone is doing it the right way, with permits and all the logistics. So much of it is public land, like National parks, the Bureau of Land Management, etc. There is a lot to juggle. Every project has different needs, not just with locations but with accommodations or casting or wanting to hire a local crew. Her job is to facilitate whatever aspects are needed and try to make it as seamless as possible whatever the needs are. Bega is also a board member for AFCI - The Association of Film Commissioners International—which represents a global network of more than 360 film commissions in approximately 40 countries across six continents. She is a member of FilmUSA - a national alliance representing state, regional, and local film commissions across the United States (over 100 represented at this time) - working to establish a Federal Film Office and collaborating / partnering at festivals and events around the world. Lastly, Bega is also a dedicated partner of LMGI (Location Managers Guild International).Along with her incredible work for the Film Commission, Bega has a diverse background in the film industry - including being a PA on movies like Very Bad Things (1998) and Rounders (1998), working in costume design, photography, acting, and so much more. Find out more about the Moab to Monument Valley Film Commission by visiting their website: www.filmmoab.com.Follow the Moab to Monument Valley Film Commission on Instagram: @filmmoab.Follow ROTLP on Instagram: @rangersofthelostpark.Follow ROTLP on TikTok: @rangersofthelostpark.Join Patreon! Become a Ranger Friend for bonus content and to join an incredible community.Now available on YouTube! Watch Rangers of the Lost Park select episodes.Got a cool Ranger Tea story? Want Liz to share your interesting outdoors story on the podcast? Fill out the Listener Story Form!Have a question for Liz? Want her to answer it on an episode? Fill out the Listener Question Form!Do you know someone who would make a great guest on the podcast (yourself included)? Fill out the Podcast Guest Request Form!For episode suggestions and feedback, please email Liz at info@rangersofthelostpark.com.Please download, subscribe, and leave a review! Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
What happens when you gather a group of nature enthusiasts in an old growth forest? This episode is truly unique and not something Liz has done on this podcast before.Liz went out into the remote backcountry with a wonderful group of public land protectors and will be sharing four of their stories with you all today. You’ll get to hear some personal stories of deep love, resiliency and intrigue straight from the person who beholds it, including Daniel Gomez, Patty Hine, Misha Inomoto, and Chandra LeGue.On May 31st of this year, Liz braved the long, 3.5-hour journey through winding forest roads with no wifi or phone service in order to join a group of public land advocates at one of Oregon’s most long-lived old growth forests: Crabtree Valley. Located in Western Oregon, it is an environmental sanctuary, and those who are familiar with it describe it as “peaceful, resilient, diverse, and incredibly beautiful"-- with trees up to 1,000 years old (they were alive at the same time as Genghis Khan, y'all!).Named the “Crabtree Valley Expedition,” this community-driven event was advertised as “two days of exploration to connect advocates, photographers, story tellers, legal forest defenders, naturalists, and forest lovers to an area that could be impacted by the Trump administration’s proposed management plan revisions for Bureau of Land Management forests in western Oregon.” Their hope in documenting the biodiversity of this ancient forest, in a multitude of ways, is that they can mount a successful campaign to continue protections for not just this place, but all old-growth forests on BLM lands (and beyond!).” And it couldn’t have been possible without the nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, Oregon Wild.Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon’s wildlands, wildlife, and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations. Founded in 1974, Oregon Wild represents the fish and wildlife, ancient forests, and rich diversity of public lands and landscapes that make this state so special. They work to protect and restore the parts of the natural world that do not have a human voice, while not forgetting that humans are interconnected with nature and its systems.Oregon Wild and other conservation groups have challenged numerous BLM logging proposals in recent years that have targeted mature and old-growth forests. Courts have sided with conservation groups, highlighting that, even under the significantly weaker safeguards of the 2016 RMPs, the agency has regularly violated its own rules and bedrock environmental laws in order to facilitate commercial logging projects. On February 19, 2026, the Trump administration announced its intention to revise Western Oregon BLM management plans. Administration officials have stated that their goal is to return to the logging levels of the 1970s and 80s—when the BLM and U.S. Forest Service were clear-cutting roughly 3-square miles of old-growth forests per week. To achieve this, they intend to override decades of court rulings protecting clean water and wildlife, and return to the very management practices that led to federal Endangered Species Act listings for coho salmon and other imperiled species in the first place. The 1,251 acres of wild forest--Crabtree Valley--is only still standing because of the persistent advocacy of the people who fell in love with it. Folks can support The River Democracy Act proposal by visiting Oregon Wild’s website link.Lastly, tell Oregon's delegation: protect our old-growth forests. For more action tools from Oregon Wild, click here.It's important we all speak up for these ancient, wild places. Liz hopes you enjoy this very special episode of Rangers of the Lost Park.ABOUT THE GUESTS:Daniel Gomez (he/him): Daniel moved a lot as a child but spent most of his teens and college years in Kansas, where he met his wife Megan at his local college. They moved to Oregon 13 years ago and just happened to pi
This week's guest is Robert "Bob" Pahre: a professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also currently Department Head. Liz and Bob discuss the consequences of erasing history from our nation's National Parks will entail, especially in regards to future generations and their access to knowledge and historical facts. They also talk about bear encounters, a sneaky fox who steals boots, weird German words, hanging upside down in a tree while playing the saxophone, the book that Bob is currently writing, and more!More about Bob:After graduate school, Bob first taught at the University of Rochester and then at the Political Science Department and the School of Public Policy (SPP, now the Ford School) at the University of Michigan.He received a PhD in Political Science from UCLA and a B.A. in International Relations and German Studies from Stanford University. Not only that, but he played saxophone for the notorious Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band. Bob regularly teaches a summer course on the politics of national parks, on-site. He alternates between Politics of the Greater Yellowstone Area and the Politics of the National Parks of Colorado, with some Utah. “You know that you want to join us,” he says.If you can’t join one of those courses in the field, Bob developed an online course on the “Politics of Yellowstone.” You need not be a student at the University of Illinois to enroll. Most of Bob’s research has been dominated by political economy, but now he is interested more in environmental questions and the politics of culture and heritage. His favorite hobbies are hiking, backpacking, and photography. You can sometimes find him on a bike or in a kayak. Most of his photography focuses on the outdoors, especially in the national parks.Bob's current book-length examines the politics behind the ways that US national parks interpret Western expansion. Past major projects have looked at the role of hegemony in the international political economy, the domestic political economy of trade cooperation, and transdisciplinary research in the social sciences; he has also written on some miscellaneous topics.Find out more about Bob on his website. Learn more about Bob's upcoming book and research here.Read more about the impacts of erasing historical interpretation from National Parks here.Follow ROTLP on Instagram: @rangersofthelostpark.Follow ROTLP on TikTok: @rangersofthelostpark.Join Patreon! Become a Ranger Friend for bonus content and to join an incredible community.Now available on YouTube! Watch Rangers of the Lost Park select episodes.Got a cool Ranger Tea story? Want Liz to share your interesting outdoors story on the podcast? Fill out the Listener Story Form!Have a question for Liz? Want her to answer it on an episode? Fill out the Listener Question Form!Do you know someone who would make a great guest on the podcast (yourself included)? Fill out the Podcast Guest Request Form!For episode suggestions and feedback, please email Liz at info@rangersofthelostpark.com.Please download, subscribe, and leave a review! Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Meg Carney, host of Outdoor Minimalist Podcast, and Liz Crandall, host of Rangers of the Lost Park Podcast, team up for an effortless collaboration where they talk about how they both find joy in a world of bad news. As Meg says: it can feel impossible to find joy when the headlines never seem to let up. From attacks on public lands and environmental protections to growing uncertainty for the people who steward these places, many of us are carrying a constant sense of urgency, grief, and overwhelm. But what if joy isn't a distraction from the work? What if joy is what sustains us through it?In this episode, Liz and Meg talk about resilience and the role joy plays in challenging times. Together, they explore how to stay informed without becoming consumed by the news cycle, the importance of caring for ourselves as we advocate for the places we love, and why local action and community connection matter now more than ever.Meg is the creator and host of Outdoor Minimalist, a podcast that raises awareness through conversation, information, and mindfulness regarding some of the most important environmental issues of our time. The goal of Outdoor Minimalist is to give outdoor enthusiasts and outdoor companies tools they can use to change their behavior when engaging in outdoor recreation to lower their overall environmental impact. Follow Outdoor Minimalist on Instagram: @outdoor.minimalist.book.Visit Outdoor Minimalist's Website: TheOutdoorMinimalist.com.Watch Outdoor Minimalist on YouTube: TheOutdoorMinimalist.Follow ROTLP on Instagram: @rangersofthelostpark.Follow ROTLP on TikTok: @rangersofthelostpark.Join Patreon! Become a Ranger Friend for bonus content and to join an incredible community.Now available on YouTube! Watch Rangers of the Lost Park select episodes.Got a cool Ranger Tea story? Want Liz to share your interesting outdoors story on the podcast? Fill out the Listener Story Form!Have a question for Liz? Want her to answer it on an episode? Fill out the Listener Question Form!Do you know someone who would make a great guest on the podcast (yourself included)? Fill out the Podcast Guest Request Form!For episode suggestions and feedback, please email Liz at info@rangersofthelostpark.com.Please download, subscribe, and leave a review! Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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