This Is What The Depression Sounded Like
Aldo Leopold in the Country Aldo Leopold is shown at his shack in Sauk County, Wisc., circa 1940. Researchers have reconstructed the soundscape of the naturalist's famous shack, using his detailed field notes. UW Digital ArchivesDigital birds reconstruct the soundscape of famous naturalist Aldo Leopold. The great American naturalist Aldo Leopold once wrote that he was glad he would not be young in a future without wilderness. Indeed, he may not have been thrilled to know the sonic environment he enjoyed each day is gone; the sound of highways now mingles with birdsong, which itself has changed with the redistribution of species. But he took such detailed and copious field notes that we can recreate that environment, hearing the sounds of nature as Leopold himself would have. This "resurrected soundscape" is the first sonic setting to be recreated from real data, rather than from informed imagination, according to researchers at the University...