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Most of the Seacoast region seemed stunned at today's news.

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is on the Pentagon's list of some 150 bases to be closed around the country.

To the region, that could mean a loss of some 4 thousand civilian jobs.

More than a thousand of those jobs are in New Hamsphire.....accounting for more than 120 million dollars in wages.

In Portsmouth some are vowing to fight the decision.

Some want to look ahead.

NHPR Correspondent Roger Wood reports.

An announcement on the fate of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is expected this morning. As people mull the yard’s potential closure, the property's future is on many peoples’ minds. But as state officials, city planners, and developers consider the possibilities of what can be built on the land, they are also thinking about what’s underneath it. New Hampshire Public Radio’s Rebecca Kaufman more.

News of the shipyard's appearance on the closure list hit the statehouse mid-morning.

Larry Polansky and Jody Diamond have devoted their lives to creating and preserving non-traditional music and ensuring its place in history. Twenty years ago they created Frog Peak Music, a composers� collective that produces, publishes and distributes recordings of experimental music. They're composers, scholars, educators at Dartmouth, and Jody is the director of the American Gamelan Institute. They explain why they feel their work is essential in the broad context of art.

The cold, wet and windy spring has delayed many birds and animals from coming back, but there are plenty of things happening in New Hampshire, from the birds and the bees to animals and the trees. Kevin Gardner's guests are Iain Macleod, Director of Center Operations for NH Audubon and Rosemary Conroy, naturalist and freelance writer with a bi-weekly nature column in the New Hampshire Sunday News called "Natural Selections". Both host Something Wild on NHPR.