On this Outdoor Explorer we’re revisiting an important topic: “Leave only footprints.” — It’s an ambitious philosophy. Most of us who recreate outdoors like to think we do a good job of this. We pack out our trash. We travel across landscapes with a light footprint. But how good are we? We’ll hear experts talk about what it really means to leave no trace — from scattering your fire circles to packing out human waste. Minimizing your impact in the outdoors helps ensure others who travel after you get the same wilderness experience.
HOST: Charles Wohlforth
SEGMENTS:
- Segment 1: “Minimizing impact”. Tre-C Dumais, field instructor, National Outdoor Leadership School
- Segment 2: “Getting a stolen bike back”. Will Davis, at a Trail Tales event.
- Segment 3: “Teaching youth about minimizing impact”. Jillian Morrissey, Student Conservation Association
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ORIGINAL BROADCAST: Thursday, July 10th, 2014.
REPEAT BROADCAST: Thursday, July 5th, 2018. 2-3 p.m. & 8–9 p.m. AKST
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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!
