The WildeBeat

Thu, Jul 31, 2008

Waste Training

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This skills program presents a training talk and demonstration on disposing of waste properly in the backcountry. This is the third in a series of editions featuring the Leave No Trace traveling trainers.

Steve recorded J.D. Tanner and Emily Ressler giving their regular presentation of the third principle of Leave No Trace, Dispose of Waste Properly. This is an important skill that most people get, but fewer people seem to get right.

Emily and J.D., along with the other Leave No Trace traveling trainers, maintain the Traveling Trainers Blog.

• Show number 149 [MP3 format; length 9:51; 2,368,637 bytes]
• Show number 146, high-quality stereo version [MP3 format; length 10:39; 10,237,548 bytes]
• Show number 149 script

Thu, Jul 24, 2008

Bagging Wild Sounds, part 2

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This outings program is part two of a report on a trip to record nature sounds. You've got to be totally quiet; stand like a statue. And then, if you're in the right place at the right time, you'll capture your sound. (Part one is here.)

Our assistant producer Kate Taylor reports on her visit to the annual field recording workshop of the Nature Sounds Society. She tells her story with the help of:

• Alton Byrd, a nature sounds hobbyist from Berkeley, California.
• Martyn Stewart, a professional nature sounds recordist for the BBC.
• Chris Bell, a museum curator from Sydney, Australia.
• Hundreds of birds, amphibians, and a few domesticated mammals.
• Gina Farr, a multimedia producer from Marin Country, California.

You can get tips from Dan Dugan on recording nature sounds by listening to our edition number 90, Listening to Parks.

WildeBeat Members can download an extended interview with Martyn Stewart and additional extended wild sound recordings from WildeBeat Insider web pages.

• Show number 148 [MP3 format; length 10:33; 2,356,042 bytes]
• Combined show numbers 147 & 148, high-fidelity stereo [MP3 format; length 17:40; 16,966,708 bytes]
• Show number 148 script
• Show numbers 147 & 148 combined script
• Photo album

Thu, Jul 17, 2008

Bagging Wild Sounds, part 1

Posted at 09:00

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This outings program is part one of a report on a trip to record nature sounds. You've got to be totally quiet; stand like a statue. And then, if you're in the right place at the right time, you'll capture your sound.

Our assistant producer Kate Taylor reports on her visit to the annual field recording workshop of the Nature Sounds Society. She tells her story with the help of:

• Dan Dugan, technical advisor to the Nature Sounds Society.
• Gina Farr, a multimedia producer from Marin Country, California.
• Hundreds of birds, amphibians, and a few domesticated mammals.
• Chris Bell, a museum curator from Sydney, Australia.
• Martyn Stewart, a professional nature sounds recordist for the BBC.

Next week, in part two, we'll hear more nature sounds, and find out why it's important to our guests to record and preserve them.

You can get tips from Dan Dugan on recording nature sounds by listening to our edition number 90, Listening to Parks.

• Show number 147 [MP3 format; length 9:48; 2,356,947 bytes]
• Show number 147 script

Thu, Jul 10, 2008

Starting With Fire

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This skills program presents the basic skill of fire building. This is the second in a series of shows featuring primitive technologies experts from Primitive Ways. (The first show is number 141, First Skills.)

Naturalist Dino Labiste explains and demonstrates the fundamental skill of fire building. Our ancestors depended on fire as a basic survival tool as far back as a million years ago, and yet today, among many people it's becoming a lost art.

Ben Lawhon, the education director for the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics talks about minimum impact skills for making and using fires. The fifth Leave No Trace principle is Minimize Campfire Impacts.

The Primitive Ways website has many articles on primitive fire skills. Another source of information on primitive skills in the Society of Primitive Technologies.

• Show number 146 [MP3 format; length 9:55; 2,383,583 bytes]
• Show number 146, high-quality stereo version [MP3 format; length 10:28; 10,057,426 bytes]
• Show number 146 script

Thu, Jul 03, 2008

Stealth Gear

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This skills program explains the gear you can carry to tread lightly on your favorite wild places. This is the second in a series of presentations by the Leave No Trace traveling trainers.

J.D. Tanner and Emily Ressler talk about the gear you can bring along to make it easier to Leave No Trace. They talk about shoes and shelter, bags and trowels, cameras and sketch pads, lights and blankets, cans and binoculars, and radios and headphones. All of this gear, and more, can help you leave the wild places you visit as good or better than you found them.

Specifically, Emily mentions Restop, WAG bags, and poop tubes. J.D. mentions bear cans, which we discussed in detail in our previous edition, Bear Cans Revisited.

We'll hear more from Emily Ressler and J.D. Tanner in a future edition. The series will continue several weeks from now when J.D and Emily explain more details about a specific Leave No Trace principle.

• Show number 145 [MP3 format; length 9:47; 2,352,439 bytes]
• Show number 145, high-quality stereo version [MP3 format; length 9:47; 9,406,657 bytes]
• Show number 145 script

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