Remember your first and last visits to a national park?
As documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan noted in their recent series airing on PBS Television—and borrowing its title from the late Wallace Stegner—the civic action to create a network of national parks was one of "the best ideas America ever had".
Kurt Repanshek
Wildlife Art Journal is pleased to announce the formation of a strategic alliance with National Parks Traveler. Our association not only brings together shared ideas and a passion for the natural world, but it is a reconnecting of old friends.
Kurt Repanshek, who founded National Parks Traveler, and Todd Wilkinson, the editor in chief of Wildlife Art Journal, are both hard news journalists whose reporting and friendship in the American West dates back to the 1980s. Repanshek was a longtime bureau chief for The Associated Press and Wilkinson was then and continues to contribute regularly to international newspapers and magazines in addition to writing books (his most recent being a forthcoming environmental biography on Ted Turner).
As reporters, Kurt and Todd have visited many of the 391 sites in the U.S. Park System on assignments and with their families. They also have extensive contacts within the active and retired ranks of the agency.
“Kurt has turned National Parks Traveler into an impressive, definitive site for knowing what’s happening in America’s national parks,” Wilkinson says. “Some people use it as a tool for trip planning but many more go there regularly to share information and stay on top of issues that are affecting parks and the natural wonders inside of them. Our sites share a lot in common. I believe the Traveler is an excellent resource that all artists should use and enjoy.”
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