This week, host Daniel Raimi talks with Dawn Carr, executive director of the Canadian Parks Council, a network of national, provincial, and territorial parks across Canada. Raimi and Carr discuss why connecting with nature is important, how the Canadian Parks Council works to enhance access to the natural world, how climate change is affecting the ways that governments need to manage their parks into the future, and strategies of making access to parks more equitable.

Editor’s Note: Next week, we’ll release the first episode of our month-long spin-off series, “Big Decisions: The Future of US Environmental and Energy Policy.” For this series, which will air in our same Resources Radio time slot every Tuesday in October, RFF President Richard G. Newell and RFF Board of Directors Chair Sue Tierney will share guest-hosting duties; they will talk with leading decisionmakers, analysts, researchers, and reporters about the big decisions that will impact US environmental and energy policy in the years to come. Stay tuned for more.

References and recommendations:

"The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576782/the-vanishing-half-by-brit-bennett/

“Public Land Conflicts and Controversies: The Designation of National Monuments in the Western United States” by Margaret Walls; https://www.rff.org/publications/journal-articles/public-land-conflicts-and-controversies-designation-national-monument-journal-publication/