# 50: The Impacts of Erasing National Park History, A Fox Who Steals Boots, Bear Encounters, & Weird German Words with Professor Robert "Bob" Pahre

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Podcast: [Rangers of the Lost Park](https://stenobird.com/podcast/rangers-of-the-lost-park-7390236)
Published: 2026-06-17T13:45:00+00:00
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This week's guest is Robert "Bob" Pahre: a professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also currently Department Head. Liz and Bob discuss the consequences of erasing history from our nation's National Parks will entail, especially in regards to future generations and their access to knowledge and historical facts. They also talk about bear encounters, a sneaky fox who steals boots, weird German words, hanging upside down in a tree while playing the saxophone, the book that Bob is currently writing, and more! More about Bob: After graduate school, Bob first taught at the University of Rochester and then at the Political Science Department and the School of Public Policy (SPP, now the Ford School) at the University of Michigan. He received a PhD in Political Science from UCLA and a B.A. in International Relations and German Studies from Stanford University. Not only that, but he played saxophone for the notorious Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band. Bob regularly teaches a summer course on the politics of national parks, on-site. He alternates between Politics of the Greater Yellowstone Area and the Politics of the National Parks of Colorado, with some Utah. “You know that you want to join us,” he says. If you can’t join one of those courses in the field, Bob developed an online course on the “Politics of Yellowstone.” You need not be a student at the University of Illinois to enroll. Most of Bob’s research has been dominated by political economy, but now he is interested more in environmental questions and the politics of culture and heritage. His favorite hobbies are hiking, backpacking, and photography. You can sometimes find him on a bike or in a kayak. Most of his photography focuses on th…

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