# NEWS: New Volcano & Geyser Eruptions, Border Wall May Go Through Big Bend, Big Sur Wildflowers Destroyed

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/parkography-570887/news-new-volcano-geyser-eruptions-border-wall-may-go-through-big-bend-big-sur-wildflowers-destroyed
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/parkography-570887/news-new-volcano-geyser-eruptions-border-wall-may-go-through-big-bend-big-sur-wildflowers-destroyed.md
Podcast: [Parkography](https://stenobird.com/podcast/parkography-570887)
Published: 2026-03-05T02:01:12+00:00
Episode link: https://nationalparkpodcast.podbean.com/e/news-new-volcano-geyser-eruptions-border-wall-may-go-through-big-bend-big-sur-wildflowers-destroyed/
Audio file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/b2bzb2ihvi79dst4/NP_342675a3w.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/parkography-570887/episodes/news-new-volcano-geyser-eruptions-border-wall-may-go-through-big-bend-big-sur-wildflowers-destroyed
Duration seconds: 739

## Resource

This week in national park news: Mount Rainier National Park has officially dropped its timed entry reservation system for 2026 — joining Yosemite, Arches, and Glacier in abandoning the pandemic-era crowd management experiment. Meanwhile, one of Yellowstone’s most unusual geothermal features — Echinus Geyser — has suddenly begun erupting again after years of dormancy. We also cover: • A fatal incident near the Kīlauea caldera in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park• A controversial proposal to build new border barriers through Big Bend National Park• One of the best wildflower blooms in Death Valley since 2016• A strange act of vandalism at Big Sur’s famous Calla Lily Valley• Possible campground closures in Washington state parks• And the opening of a brand-new Texas state park for the first time in 24 years 00:00 Intro00:46 Mount Rainier Drops Timed Entry02:01 Hawaii Volcano Fatal Incident02:57 Yellowstone Geyser Returns04:47 Big Bend Border Wall Proposal06:58 Death Valley Wildflower Bloom08:14 Big Sur Flower Vandalism09:46 Washington Campground Cuts10:58 Texas Opens New State Park12:05 Wrap Up

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/parkography-570887/episodes/news-new-volcano-geyser-eruptions-border-wall-may-go-through-big-bend-big-sur-wildflowers-destroyed/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/parkography-570887/news-new-volcano-geyser-eruptions-border-wall-may-go-through-big-bend-big-sur-wildflowers-destroyed.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.