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LOST IN FORESTVILLE

Accoustic Ecology

Emergence Magazine: When the Earth Started to Sing

This sonic journey written and narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth. The experience is made entirely of tiny trembling waves in air, the fugitive, ephemeral energy that we call sound. Spoken words combined with terrestrial sounds invite our senses and imaginations to go outward into an experience of the living Earth and its history.

Biophilia: Sound On
A two-part series on the experience of sound. Included are projects created by composers, artists, and scientists that engage with the acoustic landscapes of the Earth. You’re invited to appreciate how sound affects our emotions and our relationship with the planet, and to consider how we all feel the vibrations of sound differently. Biophilia is a part of Arbor Institute's new digital journal of curated works interweaving art, ecology, and contemplative life

New York Times: How to Find Silence in a Noisy World

This week, "Sanctuaries of Silence" takes you on a virtual journey into one of Earth's last remaining bastions of true quiet - the Hoh Rain Forest, in Washington State. Shooting in beautifully immersive 360 video, directors Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee follow acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton as he explores the mossy, green heart of silence. Vaughan-Lee’s previous Op-Doc, “Vanishing Island,” also took us to a place physically endangered by modernity — Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles. In “Sanctuaries of Silence,” the threat is not so much to a place, as to our very ability to encounter the natural world on its own terms. As Hempton puts it, “Silence isn’t the absence of something, but the presence of everything.”

BirdNote: Sound Escapes

Gordon Hempton has mastered the art of truly listening. He’s known as the Sound Tracker. Some people call him an acoustic ecologist. His recordings and books have made him an international expert on the beauty and importance of undisturbed, natural soundscapes — and the ways human beings have changed them. In collaboration with BirdNote podcast, we’ll be immersed in soundscapes that Gordon hand-picked from some of the most wild, beautiful and sound-rich places he’s visited. And, he’ll give us a crash course in the art of truly listening — something that he says is a dying art, constantly under threat in our noisy, modern lives.

Quiet Parks International

Quiet Parks International is a non-profit committed to the preservation of quiet for the benefit of all life. The simple act of listening to the natural world can have a profound impact on our relationship to place and on ourselves by rooting us in a presence that we no longer take for granted.

The Great Big Story: Recording the Sounds of Extinction

Bernie Krause has been recording wildlife sounds, or "soundscapes," for over forty years. He's amassed the largest archive in the world, and in doing so, can chart how wildlife sounds have changed over the course of climate change.

Radiolab: Space

How would you describe life on Earth to an alien? In 1977, the Voyager spacecraft launched into space. And with it, went the Golden Record-- a sort time capsule, a collection of sounds of the human experience that would describe life on Earth to whomever or whatever might find it.

Twenty Thousand Hertz: The Golden Record

The team of sound designers deconstructs each track of the Golden Record, an album produced by Carl Sagan to represent the history of humans on earth.

WILDFIRE

Inhabitants

Inhabitants is a documentary film follows five Native American Tribes across deserts, coastlines, forests, and prairies as they restore their traditional land management practices. For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to maintain traditional land management practices. From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies, Native communities are restoring their ancient relationships with the land. As the climate crisis escalates these time-tested practices of North America's original inhabitants are becoming increasingly essential in a rapidly changing world.

REI Co-op: Wildfire

What can the devastating and controversial 2017 Eagle Creek Wildfire in Oregon tell us about the past, present, and future of wildfires in North America? Listen and find out.

NatGeo: Inside a Wildfire

Watch a short video of what it's like to be inside a fast-spreading wildfire.

Wilder Than Wild: Fire, Forests and the Future

This documentary reveals how fire suppression and climate change have exposed our forests and wildland-urban landscapes to large, high intensity wildfires - and explores strategies to mitigate the impact of these fires.

For The Wild: The Myths & Misinformation of Wildland Fires

Narratives of wildfire in this country have long been muddled with myth and misinformation. Learn from Dr Chad Hansen, a forest and fire ecologist with the John Muir Project, about the intersection of fire ecology, climate change, and politics.

NOVA: Inside the Megafire

Scientists investigate what was behind the deadly megafires that swept through California in 2018.

Bay Area Nature: Living with Wildfire in California

The phrase “living with fire” has been thrown around a lot in California. But what does it actually mean?

COEXISTENCE

Audubon Canyon Ranch: Living with Lions

Audubon Canyon Ranch is studying our region’s mountain lions to identify priority habitats and key wildlife corridors and to promote ecosystem conservation throughout the Napa and Sonoma regions.

Keep Me Wild: Mountain Lions

More than half of California is mountain lion habitat. Help prevent unwanted conflicts with these beautiful wild animals. Do your part in keeping them wild.

CONSERVATION

National Geographic: A new way to profit from ancient Alaskan forests—leave them standing

In the Tongass National Forest, threatened by expanded logging, a Native-owned corporation is being paid to leave some old-growth trees standing.

Press Banner: Environmentalists Push Back

Environmentalists push back against PG&E tree cutting in Santa Cruz Mountains

East Bay Times: Group sues Lafayette to stop PG&E

Group sues Lafayette to stop PG&E from cutting down 272 trees

Forest Unlimited

Forest Unlimited is a non-profit organization whose mission is to protect, enhance, and restore the forests and watersheds of Sonoma County. Forest Unlimited educates the public about logging plan review, forestry law, and regulation.