Bernie, you wrote,
> BTW, a little-know bit of soundscape history: this book was based on the =
Natural Soundscape Program I developed for the National Park Service in 200=
Message: 1.
Subject: It was part of a program by that name devised to help visitors orient
th=
emselves to listening and recording soundscapes in the national parks. I ha=
d written a listening and recording guide for park educational rangers that=
consisted of actual programs and workshops for visitors. In 2004, a couple=
of Representatives (Young and Pombo) decided that the word, soundscape, wa=
s too radical (never mind the terms, landscape and seascape from which the =
term was derived), and told the NPS office in Fort Collins, where the sound=
scape program was headquartered, that if they didn=92t change the term they=
=92d lose what little funding they had. Hence, the Natural Sounds Program=
=85without the visitor component.
I'd always known there was a story like that, but thanks for filling in the=
details.
-Dan
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