Kurt Repanshek is worried about national parks.
The founder of National Parks Traveler, a popular website dedicated to national parks news, Repanshek stopped publishing late last month after a 21-year run.
The cause was lack of funding, he said. Repanshek is in talks with a university to potentially relaunch the publication, which costs about $200,000 per year to run, he said. But the longtime writer — who created the blog to help himself freelance stories — will turn 70 later this year and said he is ready to turn the publication over to someone else.
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“I have taken it as far as I can,” Repanshek said in a June 30 interview, the day Traveler closed. “Barring a last second miracle, we’re not printing anymore after today.”
