Kirk Sigler
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534 appearances
76 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2025
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Kirk Sigler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In a letter to the president's interior secretary, Doug Burgum, 40 retired superintendents at parks ranging from Denali to Big Bend to Shenandoah urged that all parks be closed if the Republican-controlled Congress can't pass a budget and there's a government shutdown.
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They say past shutdowns, in which parks stayed open with a skeleton staff, resulted in increased vandalism and habitat destruction and other public safety risks.
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The Interior Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the possible shutdown comes amid a major strain facing America's national parks.
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President Trump has cut about a quarter of the park's permanent staff, just as many reported record visitation this summer.
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Kirk Sigler, NPR News.
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It is not unexpected.
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The 2024 public lands rule was dense and complex, but at its core, it aimed to put conservation on an equal footing with more traditional uses of federal public lands, such as cattle grazing, mining, and outdoor recreating.
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It also aimed to limit the Bureau of Land Management's quarterly oil and gas lease auctions required by federal law, and it allowed for conservation groups to bid on public land at auctions to preserve.
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It instead of just opening it up for energy exploration.
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In a statement, President Trump's Interior Secretary Doug Bergum says the rule blocked access to those lands that rural communities depend on for timber and mining.
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Trump's public lands rule rescission is now subject to a sixty-day public comment period before it will likely be reversed.
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Kirk Zigler in Pure News, Boise.
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The firefighter's name has not been released, but federal fire managers say he died after suffering a cardiac emergency near the entrance to the north rim of the Grand Canyon while doing what's called suppression repair.
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That's when crews try to rehab land like reducing erosion around fire lines after a fire has raced through it.
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The Park Service in conjunction with the local coroner's office is investigating the death.
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The Dragon Bravo fire was sparked by lightning more than two months ago and has burned some one hundred forty five thousand acres and destroyed a historic lodge.
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Another bigger investigation is focused on whether the National Park Service hit with staffing and funding cuts from President Trump's doge team had adequate resources to respond to the fire.
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Kirk Ziegler, NPR News.
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National parks have faced billions of dollars in backlogs for maintenance and infrastructure projects for a decade now, but tourism boosters like Zack Anderson, who runs Explore Whitefish, are worried that the Trump administration's latest cuts could erode the park experience so much that tourists will start going elsewhere.
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He says well managed parks make money.
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