On the next Outdoor Explorer we’re saying happy birthday to the national parks by airing the show on the 100th anniversary of the creation of National Park Service, which takes care of some of the nation’s most dramatic and valuable wilderness. We’ll hear a little about that history and how the centennial is being celebrated during the show, but our main emphasis is on the parks themselves. We’ll be joined by a pair of adventurers on a quest to cross all of Alaska’s vast national parks through untracked wilderness. These guys have seen the most remote parts of the national park system, and they have some tales to tell.
HOST: Charles Wohlforth
GUESTS:
- Brad Mieklejohn, Alaska State Director, Conservation Acquisiton of The Conservation Fund
- Roman Dial, PHD is a professor of Biology and Mathematics at Alaska Pacific University
- John Quinley, Associate Regional Director for Communications and Operations in the National Park Service
LINKS:
- Roman Dial’s personal blog
- National Parks website celebrating the 100th Anniversary
- National Park Service Centennial celebration
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BROADCAST: Thursday, August 25, 2016. 2:00 pm – 3:00 p.m. AKT
REPEAT BROADCAST: Thursday, September 01, 2016. 8:00 – 9:00 p.m. AKT
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Eric Bork, or you can just call him “Bork” because everybody else does, is the FM Operations Manager for KSKA-FM. He oversees the day-to-day operations of the FM broadcast. He produces and edits episodes of Outdoor Explorer, the Alaska-focused outdoors program. He also maintains the web posts for that show. You may have heard him filling in for Morning Edition or hosting All Things Considered and can still find him operating the soundboard for any of the live broadcast programs.
After escaping the Detroit area when he was 18, Bork made it up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where he earned a degree in Communications/Radio Broadcasting from Northern Michigan University. He spent time managing the college radio station, working for the local NPR affiliate, and then in top 40 radio in Michigan before coming to Alaska to work his first few summers. After then moving to Chicago, it only took five years to convince him to move back to Alaska in 2010. When not involved in great radio programming he’s probably riding a bicycle, thinking about riding bicycles, dreaming about bikes, reading a book, or planning the next place he’ll travel to. Only two continents left to conquer!
