Episode 9: The Threat of the Growler Jets to Public Lands with Rob Smith

U.S. National Parks are set aside as spaces where visitors from all over the country and the world can go for recreation and relaxation and experience natural beauty, peace, and quiet. The Olympic National Park is one of those spaces and has even been home to one of the quietest places on earth, but its peace and quiet is greatly disrupted by Growler jets flying overhead. In this episode, Northwest Regional Director of the National Park Conservation Association Rob Smith (he/him) shares how the Growler jets threaten the park and its visitors and how they have a particular impact on veterans who are visiting the park looking for an escape from the sounds of war. There are strides being made to keep military activity out of the park and its landscape because the sounds of nature should not be interrupted by the boom and scream of military jets.

Resources: 

Learn more about the Growler jets and how to take action at: www.SoundDefenseAlliance.org

National Parks Conservation Association

Hear Our Olympics Campaign

Quiet Skies Over San Juan County

One Square Inch of Silence

Nature sounds recorded in the Olympic National Park (Gordon Hempton, The Sound Tracker, Co-Founder Quiet Parks International)

Hosted by Terra Huey and Caitlin Epstein

Produced by Caitlin Epstein in partnership with the Sound Defense Alliance