Parks and Recreation
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
"We live by wild mercy," Terry Tempest Williams writes. In this hour, she takes us to some of her favorite national parks, from Big Bend to Arches. We also explore the desert wilderness of Utah's Escalante area, and hear about a father and daughter's remarkable adventure into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Lauret Savoy says the American landscape also has a complicated history that can't be separated from the country's racism. And Robert Moor talks about the wisdom of trails. A Father and Daughter Venture Into the Alaskan Wild; Terry Tempest Williams on National Parks; Desert Mind; Land, Race, Memory; The Wisdom of Trails.
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| 0:00.0 | What is the most powerful nature experience you've ever had? |
| 0:07.7 | I butchered a caribou at 35 below with Yupik Eskimo wife, Edna, and I remember this moment where she |
| 0:15.8 | slid open the cavity and the caribou was steaming and the insides were steaming and my hand was so cold |
| 0:22.5 | I could barely hold the knife it was shaking and so she took my hands and she guided them into the |
| 0:28.2 | opening and when I withdrew them they were wet with blood but they were still they were warm again |
| 0:34.5 | and I thought these are my hands It was a really interesting experience. |
| 0:41.1 | Aiden Campbell was just 15 years old when she butchered a caribou at minus 35 degrees. Today she's 17. |
| 0:49.4 | She's made three Alaskan wilderness trips with her father. I'm Anne's Train Shamps. It's to the best of our knowledge. |
| 0:55.8 | And what is it about wilderness that draws some people back again and again |
| 1:00.5 | to the places that test the limits of their strength and endurance? |
| 1:05.6 | James and Aidan Campbell are not your typical father and daughter, |
| 1:09.1 | and they've been places very few people go. |
| 1:12.3 | The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is 20 million acres of raw wilderness. |
| 1:17.0 | You have the mountains, you have the tundra, you have glacier-fed rivers. |
| 1:21.8 | It's beautiful, but it's also a very harsh landscape. |
| 1:24.8 | How far away were you from other people? |
| 1:28.6 | Well, we were about 300 miles northeast of Fairbanks. |
| 1:33.2 | We were a long, long way away. |
| 1:35.3 | I think the nearest village is Fort Yukon or Arctic Village, and they were both about 120 miles |
| 1:41.0 | away. |
| 1:42.0 | So we were all by our lonesome. That's a long way to go for groceries. |
| 1:46.0 | Yes. What do you eat? |
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