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National Park Director CHUCK SAMS: Everything You Expect Us to Ask

National Park Director CHUCK SAMS: Everything You Expect Us to Ask

Update: 2025-08-18
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Derek and Carl are joined by the most recent National Park Service Director, Chuck Sams. Topics include everything from getting blacklisted to Bigfoot to 3 suggestions Carl makes to improve the NPS system for backpackers and visitors. And, of course, there’s National Parks trivia.


Some of the Topics Covered:


-Getting rid of Recreation.gov


-How to become the next NPS director


-National Parks trivia for the NPS director


Check out the work Chuck Sams is doing for the Yale Center for Environmental Justice…as well as The University of Oregon Law School.


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National Park Director CHUCK SAMS: Everything You Expect Us to Ask

National Park Director CHUCK SAMS: Everything You Expect Us to Ask

Bleav + Carl Mandrioli