"Field Work"

Host: Rebecca Sheir

Intro/News/Credits

Field Work in the Gatormobile. The permafrost along the Stampede Road north of Healy regularly attracts ecologists studying climate change.

Each year, University of Florida botany professor Ted Schuur, aided by researcher Jason Vogel, brings the group up from Florida to do field work. Reporter Amy Mayer recently spent some time with them. Pkg. 5:37

(6:08 with intro)

Barrow Archeology. In Barrow, archeologists Anne Jenson and Laura Thomas of the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC) have been moving old burials before rapid erosion washes even more of them into the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. APRN's Lori Townsend brings us this story from Point Barrow. Pkg. 5:14 (5:36 with intro).

Break #1: "Fields of Gold" by Sting performed by Robert Tardik from Without Words

Farming in Bethel. Along the Kuskokwim River, people survive on subsistence foods like meats and berries. But one Bethel innovator is trying to expand that definition to include organic vegetables, grown locally, right there on the tundra. Shane Iverson visited Tim Meyers'

farm to see how it works. Pkg. 5:10 (5:44 with intro)

Veggies from the Sea. With the exception of a handful of master greenhouse gardeners, steep, forested Southeast is devoid of agriculture

- on land, anyway. But when AK's Scott Burton met Helen Watkins, he realized there's plenty to be farmed... from the sea. Pkg. 5:51 (6:23 with intro)

Button: "The Vegetable Song (Barnyard Dance)" by Tish Hinojosa from Threadgill's Supper Session - Second Helpings

Planting From the Air. Doug Glenn is the only aerial seeder in Alaska.

One of his latest projects is just north of Fairbanks, where slagheaps of mines line the Steese Highway. AK's Ellen Lockyer introduces us to a man who uses his plane to put the green back "in them there hills,"

after the gold is taken out. 5:00 (5:28 with intro)

Break #2: "Learning to Fly" from Guitar Tribute to the Foo Fighters

Own a Piece of America. Since 1981, Scott Moger has run Own a Piece of America, a company that allows anyone with $3.95 jingling around in their pocket to become an honest-to-goodness landowner. AK host Rebecca Sheir spoke with Moger in his native Manhattan, deep within some of the borough's finest land: Central Park. Pkg. 4:55

Button: "Fifty Nifty United States" by Ray Charles

The Totem Trail. In the forest, field work often means trail work. Under the auspices of the Yakutat Salmon Board, crews in the Southeast community recently completed a new trail leading to their newest totem pole, created by Tsimshian artist David Boxley, Jr. CoastAlaska's Ed Schoenfeld toured the project with project coordinator Bill Lacey, and brings us this story. Pkg. 277s (4:44 with intro)

Button: "Happy Trails" by Roy Rogers from Hoppy Gene and Me

Mystery & Politics: Mike Doogan. His booming voice has spoken from the pages of the Anchorage Daily News and, most recently, from the halls of the Alaska State Legislature. In recent years, he's added another position to his resume: mystery author. Katie Hecker spoke with Doogan about his newest installment in the Nik Kane series: Capitol Offense.

4:33 (5:13 with intro)

Calendar of Events. AK's weekly look at upcoming events around the state. (Song: "I Could Write a Book" by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart performed by Tony Evans and His Orchestra from Broadway Goes Latin (Music for Dancing))

Close: "Strawberry Fields Forever" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney performed by Les Fradkin from While My Guitar Only Plays