Take a close listen next time you visit a national park. What do you hear? What can you hear? We’ll share some of the sounds in a minute in this week's episode with hopes they inspire you to let your ears play a greater role in your enjoyment during your national park visit.
To listen to more natural sounds from the National Park System, check out the Sound and Light Ecology Team's website at Colorado State University.
This week we also discuss a new paper just out that explores how climate change is influencing the type of forests we see in national parks in the Western United States. The researchers’ conclusion: the forests you see today in parks such as Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier might not reappear after a devastating wildfire.
:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Episode introduction with Kurt Repanshek
1:10 Bass Harbor - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
1:58 Grand Teton National Park Foundation promotion
2:31 Washington’s National Park Fund promotion
3:11 Listening to the acoustical side of national parks
17:55 Amaranth - Bill Mize - The Sounds of the Great Smoky Mountains
18:10 National Parks Traveler promotion
18:23 North Cascades Institute promotion
18:43 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation promotion
19:09 Friends of Acadia promotion
19:45 Wildfires are driving forest change in the West
35:48 The Offering - Bill Mize - The Sounds of the Great Smoky Mountains
36:24 Episode Closing
36:47 Orange Tree Productions promotion
37:24 National Parks Traveler footer
- By NPT Staff - July 12th, 2020 7:00am
