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Rumble Strip: It's a Podcast Erica Heilman Download Erica Heilman produces Rumble Strip from her home in Calais, Vermont. I like it because I never know what she's going to do next. This is a satire about modern life in America. Donate

Collage by Charles Hope Lick the Crickets Larry Massett Download From following the news lately I feel like I don't know who to believe or who to trust, like I don't know what's going on or why and things are only going to get worse and there's nothing I can do about it. In times like this maybe surrealistic poetry and Dada make more sense than realism. Donate Collage by Charles Hope

Industrial Tourism Scott Carrier Download Which is worse--a campground or an oil well?   Donate

Firewood in Monument Valley, collected on Cedar Mesa to heat Navajo homes.  Traditional Ecological Knowledge Scott Carrier Download A story about the origin of the Bear's Ears proposal. Round River Conservation Studies website Donate

Comb Wash The Hopi Way Scott Carrier Download A conversation with Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, Hopi elder.   Donate

From "Early Rock Art on the San Juan River"  by Joe Pachak Sand Island Petroglyphs Scott Carrier Download Donate From "Early Rock Art on the San Juan River"  by Joe Pachak From "Early Rock Art on the San Juan River"  by Joe Pachak From "Early Rock Art on the San Juan River"  by Joe Pachak From "Early Rock Art on the San Juan River"  by Joe Pachak

Bear Ears Buttes in the background. Looking north from the top of Cedar Mesa, San Juan County, Utah. Elevation 7000 feet. Bear's Ears, Part Two Scott Carrier Download A conversation with author Terry Tempest Williams about the source of the problem in the battle over public lands in southern Utah. Click here for a link to some of Terry's work. Music by Glenn Gould playing Bach's Goldberg Variation...

Looking south towards the Navajo Reservation from the top of Cedar Ridge, Utah. Bear's Ears, Part One Scott Carrier Download The first in a series of reports about the controversy over public land in southern Utah, plus a story by radio genius Joe Frank, who passed away January 15, 2018.   Donate

A stitched panorama of the Salt Lake valley, from the north end. Two More Stories About Mountains Erica Heilman, Joe Frank Download

I don't know who took this photo, but it sure is a good one. Maybe it's Thor. Ski Lesson Scott Carrier Download Something to get your mind off the sorry state of affairs these days. You can make a one-time donation by Stripe, below, or hit the Pay Pal button in the menu bar to subscribe for as little as on dollar a month. Thanks for listening. Donate

One of Grant Petersen's personal bicycles. The Bicycle Artist Scott Carrier Download An interview with Grant Petersen of Rivendell Bicycles Works in Walnut Creek, California. Music: Slow Bicycle by Mum Donate One of Grant's Bridgestone bikes

War of the Worlds Orson Welles and The Mercury Theater On the Air Download This is a Halloween special for people who have not heard the original 1938 CBS broadcast. 

Basin and Range Scott Carrier Download Donate

We Thought It Was a Movie Scott Carrier Download

NFL Sunday Scott Carrier Download A short commentary on the protests. Donate

The Oracle Scott Carrier Download My friend Alex and I try to visit the Utah Data Center, 20 miles south of my house in Salt Lake City. DONATE BY TEXT 801-876-1913 Check out The Sonosopher , a documentary about Alex Caldiero. James Bamford's article on the Utah Data Center in Wired Magazine . Music from the film The Day the Earth Stood Still .

The Continental Divide Part Two Scott Carrier Download I try it again, this time with some respect. The short clip of music in the middle of the story is by the Icelandic group MUM . The music at the end is a North Vietnamese boys' choir, a recording given to me by Alex Chadwick. Donate

The top of the highway through Rocky Mountain National Park. The Continental Divide Scott Carrier Download The day before it snowed three inches. Donate

Paul Brennan, Creighton King, and myself at the Green River Lakes in the summer of 1991. Stories from the Green River Scott Carrier Download I thought, considering the recent mind-fuck of news, it would be good to play a relaxing story. This is a re-run from a couple summers ago, although I originally produced it in 1991 for Weekend All Things Considered. Donate

An undocumented farm worker in New England, USA. Photo by Erica Heilman. Trump's Wall: Your Neighbor Erica Heilman Download Donald Trump promised to build a wall along the border with Mexico but at this point there is little support in Congress to actually fund the construction. And there's been a sharp decline in illegal immigration since Trump took office, even without an actual wall.  Perh...

The opening of Santa Elena's Canyon, Big Bend National Park. The left side of the canyon is in Mexico, the right side is in the United States. Trump's Wall, Part Two Scott Carrier Download Interviews with people on both sides of the border in and around Big Bend National Park, Texas. Donate Tourists crossing the Rio Grande at Boquillas del Carmen. Float trips on the Rio Grande are very popular. Yo...

The Rio Grande in Bend Bend Ranch State Park, Texas, just west of Big Bend National Park. Trump's Wall, Part One Scott Carrier Download The first part of a series about the proposed wall along the border. A visit to Big Bend National Park. Music: Down By the River by Neil Young Donate The Rio Grande near Lajitas, Texas.

I-10, Texas, 1983 My First Radio Story Scott Carrier Download This is how I started producing stories for public radio in 1983. I was extremely lucky. Some people say I still am. Music during the introduction: Slow Bicycle by Mum Donate Soapbox preacher, I-10 near El Paso, Texas, 1983  

photo by CNBC It's All Over Now Scott Carrier Download Who is this guy? Who is he really? We think of him as a villain, but perhaps he's more the tragic hero, doomed to lose everything he cares about. The link to Bonnie Raitt on the David Letterman show Donate

Photo from jennimonet.co m. (Her name is misspelled in the photo.) What's Happening at Standing Rock? Scott Carrier Download On February 8th, the Army Corps of Engineers approved the permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under the Missouri River.  This is an interview with Jenni Monet, an independent journalist who's been embedded at Standing Rock since the first week of December. Sh...