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Lewis & Clark: Nez Perce Bones- Horace Axtell 3:30 Barrett Golding

Nez Perce elder and spiritual leader Horace Axtell, from Lewiston, Idaho, talks about water, a way of life, weddings, re-burials and language. [transcript]

Broadcast: Sep 5 2003 on NPR Living on EarthSeries: Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later Subjects: Environment, Spoken Word, Historical, Native

Grant & Sue 28:09 Scott Carrier

The story of the most hated environmentalists in Boulder Utah -- people who are actually burned in effigy -- and how, after seven years, they come to agree with the other side on more things than not.

Broadcast: Jul 25 2003 on PRI/WBEZ This American Life Subjects: Environment, Business

Lewis & Clark: Ken Karzmiski 3:34 Barrett Golding

Archaeologist Ken Karzmiski works at the Discovery Center, near the Dalles Dam on the Columbia River in central Oregon. On one side is Interstate-84, on the other a railroad, and in between are the memories of lost languages and cultures. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jul 18 2003 on NPR Living on EarthSeries: Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later Subjects: Native, Historical, Environment, Spoken Word

Lewis & Clark: Bar Pilots 3:25 Barrett Golding

When Foreign ships enter U.S. waters, they are required to have an American pilot on board. In Astoria, Oregon, the Columbia River Bar Pilots Association brings the pilots out to the boats. Each body of water, each bend of the river, brings a new environmental issue, one that often gets no national attention, but is the focus of intense local debate. Captain Phil O’Shaughnessy and first mate John Leiter discuss the deep and shallow arguments for dredging the mouth of the river. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jun 13 2003 on NPR Living on EarthSeries: Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later Subjects: Business, Travel, Environment

Detial of painting: Shearing Sheep at the Hutterites

Counting Sheep Barrett Golding

COUNTING SHEEP– A year on a sheep ranch, from lambing to culling to killing. Accompanied by paintings by (former sheep shearer) Jerry Iverson.

Broadcast: May 1 2003 on HV Webwork Subjects: Food, Environment, Labor

Singing Frogs 4:00 Tom Lopez

Into their surreal radio dramas, the masterminds of ZBS (Ruby, Jack Flanders, Dr. Fritz Moon over Morocco, Dinotopia) often drop real sounds, gathered on world-wide recording expeditions, like the singing frogs they found in Brazil. [transcript]

Broadcast: Apr 4 2003 on NPR Living on Earth Subjects: Religious, Environment

Blackfeet 39 Wildland Firefighters 3:40 Barrett Golding

Morning on the The Lewis&Clark Trail: 200 Years Later. Some of the world’s best wildland firefighters, Blackfeet 39 and the Chief Mountain Hotshots, from Montana’s Blackfeet Indian Reservation, get ready for work in Idaho’s Clearwater Forest. [transcript]

Broadcast: Apr 1 2003 on NPR Living on EarthSeries: Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later Subjects: Native, Environment

Horse Therapy 6:37 Dmae Roberts

At riding stables across the country, kids with disabilities are working with horses in a new kind of therapy that’s both physical and emotional. there are about 650 riding centers in the U.S. and Canada that offer therapeutic horse riding to more than 30,000 people with disabilities. One such rider is eight-year-old Grace Kurlychek who rides her horse Dove at Ride-Able in Eugene, Oregon. More at Stories1st. [transcript]

Broadcast: Mar 1 2003 on NPR Living on EarthSeries: Hearts of Nature Subjects: Health, Environment

Sisters of St Gertrude’s Garden 3:30 Barrett Golding

Another stop on the The Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later. The Benedictine Sisters, of the Monastery of St. Gertrude in Cottonwood, Idaho, practice a stewardship of the land deeply rooted in religion. Sister Mary Kay Henry, Sister Carol Ann, Sister Janet, Postulant Michelle talk about their garden and their faith. [transcript]

Broadcast: Feb 1 2003 on NPR Living on EarthSeries: Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later Subjects: Garden, Environment, Religious, Historical

Four Generations Fishing 3:30 Barrett Golding

Our series The Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later continues in Central Washington, on the banks of the Walla Walla. Louis Butler, his daughter, grand-daughter and grandsons are "trying to catch a few catfish." Mr. Butler’s life is filled with a nuclear family at home, and nuclear weapons and waste at work. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jan 1 2003 on NPR Living on EarthSeries: Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later Subjects: Public Affairs, Travel, Environment, Labor