LA Times article about Western Soundscape Archive

["oryoki2000" oryoki2000]

The LA Times recently published an article describing the field work of Jef=
f Rice and Kenning Arlitsch to capture natural sounds of the western USA fo=
r the Western Soundscape Archive.  The archive is managed by the J. Willard=
 Marriott Library of the University of Utah.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-soundscapes4-2009sep04=
,0,1447793.story

According to the article, Rice approached the library with a proposal to pr=
eserve natural soundscapes of the West. Arlitsch signed on, and the archive=
 program started in 2007.

According to the archive's web site, the collection includes 90% of the Wes=
t's bird species and 95% of the region's frogs and toads.  The archive also=
 contains 24 hour spectrogram snapshots created from recordings made by the=
 National Park Service over almost 20 years.

Here's a link to the Western Soundscape Archive:

http://westernsoundscape.org