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July Trip, 2022

Like most summers, this year I took a trip in late June/early July, ostensibly to save Shadow from the horrors of 4th of July fireworks.  And once again, I found myself on border between northern California, northern Nevada, and southern Oregon.  It was a good trip, with a few breezes, but overall good weather, no […]

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Till the cows go home

With some writing projects behind me (or at least on someone else’s desk for a while), I finally have some time to get out and do some recording.  In mid May, I headed south to Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, which is a lovely swatch of rolling grassland and riparian areas, only about 25 miles

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Spring in the Sonoran Desert

It’s been a warm spring here in the Sonoran Desert.  Temperatures have been running 10 to 15 degrees above normal for weeks.   The super El Niño we were looking forward to moved up to the Pacific Northwest, leading to disappointment over the prospect of a super flower year (although I hear parts of central California

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Julian Treasure TED talk

Julian Treasure on the sound of democracy

Although my blog contains a lot of silly stories and some interesting sounds, the underlying theme is to induce people to listen to the environment around them.  I focus on natural sounds, both because I like them and because I think we are losing not only the sounds, but our ability to hear them.  Our

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NSS participants

Learning from the pros

This last summer, I had the opportunity to attend the annual meeting of the Nature Sounds Society, which met near Yuba Pass, California.  I was able to tie the meeting in with my annual summer visit to family in northern Nevada. Yuba Pass is north of Truckee, California, and is a beautiful area of towering

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Recording at Lake Tahoe

“What are you going to do with those recordings?”

It’s a sad irony that one of our most important senses, hearing, is so taken for granted.  So much information about the world around us comes in through our ears, but we place such precedence on what comes through our eyes.  We are very visual creatures, granted, with an ability to see color and detail,

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