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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Elizabeth Arnold. Timecode In: 00:03:55. Timecode out: 00:22:38. Notes: Elizabeth Arnold talks about the day's events. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Dave Mills, Elizabeth Arnold. Timecode In: 00:24:36. Timecode out: 01:19:02. Notes: Wilderness Area discussion. Equipment Notes: Subject 1 is decoded MS stereo. Subject 2 is split track. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Wilderness - Alaska Engineer: Bill McQuay Date:08/14/2004 E-Elizabeth Arnold 2:17 walking wind before diary 3:44-3:56 Blank bleached boneyard ofantlers, caribou trails, passes in all directions 3:56 Liz talks about what they did today. 13:52 so we spent all day today going nowhere really and we'll probably do the same tomorrow. (bird in background) (spin the superintendent). It was a long day today, it was a big day, but when I try to think about what we did today we just walked, climbed, picked things up .. .look around at the weather, mountains ... 14:59 nice bird. 15:03 you know there's this feeling you get when you're dropped into someplace vast and wild and just raw..(there's nobody around and won't be for some time, if ever and you know that anything might happen here and nobody will ever know.) 16:00 and it hits you first and it hits you hardest when the sound of the plane starts to fade and then it's gone. 20:14 And as far as you can see is just mountains and rivers and lakes and nothing's named and nothing's on any maps, I don't know maybe it just kind ofputs you in your place. 18:34 and you know anything could happen and nobody might ever know. 18:07 Better-There's a feeling you get when you are dropped into a place like this, just vast, wild, and raw. Just big. There's nobody around and there won't be for some time, maybe never, maybe nobody's ever been here before. Anything could happen, nobody might ever even know. It just hits you, it hits you first and hardest right when the sound ofthe plane starts to fade and then it's gone. It's a feeling ofbeing small and unnecessary and vulnerable. The scale out here is just huge. It's just so vast. It's just big and you're just so small and it doesn't give a damn about you. It's going to go on being like this in spite ofus, and that's what wilderness is supposed to be, maybe what congress had in mind, left to evolve, change, all without interference of man. 19:50 So today we hiked and looked around, spent 8 hours just looking around. As far as you can see there's just mountains and lakes and rivers. Nothing's named and nothing's on maps very clearly. The sky is just huge. You can see weather from long ways away. It puts you in your place. 20:54 There's a little bit offear here, that bear's not far away ... 23:09 Ambi. Walking through, wind. Interview wi Dave Mills (day 2) 25:16 this is definitely one ofthe most remote places and far away from places ... 25:50 really a blank spot on the map, you know they really didn't know what this part of the brooks range was like, there wasn't a map to describe it and this opp to explore and discover, although he gave the reason he was going to research plants .. so that's part ofwhat we're trying to continue with recreational users here an opp to go to places that haven't been traveled much if at all so that theme ofdiscovery in a wilderness area is still important. * solitude 31 :06 its in the parks enabling legislation, solitude and discovery, discovering .. but just to let a place be takes work. 32:36 this pioneering, frontier concept was obviously very imp to americans and we've got that in a wilderness area and an opp to experience it.. 33:13 you know nature is in control out here, it forces me to tune into my environment more...it's just that part ofit forces me to be a little more alert and be more observant. 35:50 I think the wisdom that is saw in the congressional acts that pr... (Notes truncated)
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