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A huge tract of International Paper Company land is for sale in northern New Hampshire. The state hopes to protect it as open space with a balance of recreation, conservation and logging. Laura talks with David Houghton, Field Office Director for Northern New England Trust for Public Lands, John Harrigan, Publisher, Colebrook News and Sentinel, and Connecticut Lakes Headwaters Partnership Steering Committee member, and TBA. Go to www.nhdfl.org for more.

Critics say Americans are obsessed with buying stuff we don�t need, costing us our values and our environment. But it�s consumer spending that fuels the U.S. economy, and President Bush says to get out and shop. Trish talks with Thomas Naylor, author of �Affluenza: The All Consuming Epidemic�, and professor emeritus of economics at Duke University, www.duke.edu, and Craig Thompson, assistant professor of marketing at University of Wisconsin www.wisc.edu.

A new survey shows most New Hampshire residents don?t really know how well their schools are doing. We?ll ask why that?s happening, and we?ll talk about the tools you can use to rate your school. Laura talks with UNH Survey Cener director Andy Smith and NHPR's Jon Greenberg.

We talk with Transportation Commissioner Carol Murray about roads, rail and riding. We’ll ask about current, future, and sometimes controversial highway projects. Also - passenger trains are coming soon to parts of the state, and there’s a new focus on improving bike and walking paths.

Ever go for a walk in the woods of New Hampshire and stumble upon an old stone wall? You may envision a time when that wooded area was a field full of grazing sheep or a sprawling orchard. New Hampshire writer and public radio producer, Kevin Gardner explores the stories stone walls tell us about a past gone by. Also, how to create new stone walls in the tradition of that time. Laura talks with Gardner about his new book is "Granite Kiss: Traditions and Techniques of Building New England's Stone Walls".