Throw Back Thursday (TBT) to October 2012:
Imagine listening to birds without the sounds of human activity in the background.
In 2012 ecologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison recreated a soundscape from Aldo Leopold’s time without today’s background noise of vehicles, airplanes, boats, trains and tools.
Click here to read more and hear what it’s like to escape our ubiquitous human noise.
(photo of Aldo Leopold, courtesy UW Digital Archives)
When I retired, one of the first books I read was “A Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold. It was a fantastic book about nature and conservation which also gives an insight into Leopold’s soul. Another book I read soon after retiring was “Walden”, which was much different from what I was expecting.