According to The Trust for Public Land, 54% of the nation’s residents live within a 10 minute walk of a park. In Anchorage, that number is 74%. For many residents of an urban area, access to a park near their neighborhood as a child is the first outdoor exploration of life. For adults, a neighborhood park offers a quick trip into nature to recreate and relieve stress. On the next Outdoor Explorer, we’ll be talking with the visionaries, the planners, and the builders of our urban park space.
HOST: Lisa Keller
GUESTS:
- Segment 1: “Waldron Lake Master Plan and and Russian Jack Springs Improvements.” Van Le, with R&M Consultants, and Steve Rafuse.
- Segment 2: “Chester Creek Urban Single Track.” Christina Grande and Maeve Nevins-Lavtar.
- Segment 3: “Setting Winter Single Track Trails.” Josh Chelf.
LINKS:
- Waldron Lake Master Plan
- Russian Jack Springs Park Master Plan Update
- Chester Creek Urban Single Track
- Open House information, including Chester Creek Single Track Trail Map
- Anchorage Fat Bike Facebook page
BROADCAST: Thursday, January 24th, 2019. 2:00 pm – 3:00 p.m. AKT
REPEAT BROADCAST: Thursday, January 24th, 2019. 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!
