What does a healthy forest sound like? | Great Lakes Now

What can sound tell us about the health of forests?

The Soundscape Baselines Project has been recording the natural sounds of forests around the world to track biodiversity and environmental change. From their lab in Madison, Wisconsin, the researchers are building an archive of forest audio that will help future scientists understand how these ecosystems evolve.

This story was produced in collaboration with @WisconsinPublicRadio and @pbswisconsin.

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00:00 The Baraboo Hills
02:03 What Can We Learn From Sound?
05:00 Listening to Over 300,000 Hours of Audio
08:00 Who’s Using This Data?
09:16 Managed vs Unmanaged Forests
10:25 Complex Soundscapes
11:18 The Future of The Soundscape Baselines Project?

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“These Scientists Are Eavesdropping On Forests” was produced by Great Lakes Now/Detroit PBS in collaboration with @WisconsinPublicRadio and @pbswisconsin .

Produced by
Adam Fox-Long
Bridgit Bowden

Hosted by
Bridgit Bowden

Written by
Adam Fox-Long

Edited by
Jordan Wingrove

Camera
Ben Albert

Additional Material
The Sound Forest Lab
The Nature Conservancy
Daniel O’Brien
The Macaulay Library

For PBS Wisconsin
Director
Deb Piper

Camera
Wayne Vanderford

Audio Engineer
Andrew LaValley