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    Nevada Variations

    From the KNPR archives

    Original broadcasts 2001-2003

    Produced and narrated by Jon Christensen, Nevada Variations presents an audio portrait of Nevada over the course of 17 months. Each month Jon explores the history, literature, arts and current events of each county in Nevada. Supported by the Nevada Humanities. Jon Christensen is a freelance writer and reporter, and recipient of a Knight Fellowship for 2002-03. 

    Wednesday, August 6, 2003

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    Nevada Variations

    Yucca Mountain: Costs and Benefits

    Aug 06, 2003

    KNPR's Ky Plaskon takes a snapshot of the economics behind the Yucca Mountain project in the first of a three part series on how Nevada and the world are coping with high-level nuclear waste.

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    Monday, March 3, 2003

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    Area 51

    Mar 03, 2003

    Some parts of Nevada are cloaked in mystery. And nowhere more so than east of the Nevada Test Site and the top secret base called Area 51, where the desert void is big enough to hide a monumental city from prying eyes. In the final episode of his series N

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    Monday, February 3, 2003

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    Basques in Nevada

    Feb 03, 2003

    For many immigrants in America, trying to live a hyphenated ethnic identity can feel like getting pulled in opposite directions. And the tension between the old country and the new country can carry on between generations. But in Nevada, Basque-Americans

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    Monday, January 6, 2003

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    Walker Lake

    Jan 06, 2003

    Walker Lake, a high desert terminal lake in Northern Vevada, is terminal in more ways that one. The vast lake lies at the end of the Walker River. And it is dying. While farmers and indians, sports fisherman, and the state and federal government squabble

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    Tuesday, December 3, 2002

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    Goldfield

    Dec 03, 2002

    Goldfield marks its centennial with dreams of a new 'goldrush' that will rebuild the town.

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    Monday, November 4, 2002

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    Eureka, NV

    Nov 04, 2002

    The historic Nevada mining town of Eureka's only remaining active gold mine is preparing to shut down. But residents of Eureka have tried to restore and hold on to their history...and they are ever hopeful that another discovery will breath new life into

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    Monday, October 7, 2002

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    Great Basin National Park

    Oct 07, 2002

    White Pine County is home to a national park that includes some of the most majestic mountains and broad basins, as well as the Lehman Caves.

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    Monday, September 2, 2002

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    Black Rock Desert

    Sep 02, 2002

    The Black Rock Desert is perhaps best known as the site of Burning Man Festival. But there is another side of Black Rock, a lonely place where people are few and far between. It's home to one of the country's newest national conservation areas and ten wil

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    Monday, August 5, 2002

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    Burning Man Festival

    Aug 05, 2002

    The Black Rock Desert, one of the flattest, most desolate places on earth, is paradoxically an increasingly inviting destination. The Black Rock Playa is
    the site of the annual Burning Man Festival, which brings thirty thousand people to the desert nort

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    Tuesday, July 2, 2002

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    Wildfires - Lander County

    Jul 02, 2002

    Jon Christensen reports on the potential for wildfires in Lander County Nevada. In recent years wildfires have been made worse because of the spread of cheatgrass.

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