The WildeBeat show

The WildeBeat

Summary: "The audio journal about getting into the wilderness."``Presenting news and features to help you explore the Earth's remaining wild places. We appeal to listeners who value wilderness, and who treasure their visits to explore it though hiking, backpacking, horseback riding, rafting, kayaking, canoeing, climbing, skiing, and snowshoeing. We seek to excite listeners about the possibilities of exploring our remaining wilderness, educate them about responsible wilderness use, and to entertain them with the excitement others share for wild places and the activities of exploring them.

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  • Artist: Steve Sergeant for Earth Island Institute
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 Bagging Wild Sounds, part 2 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:33

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 For a complete audio archive, and to find out more, visit: www.wildebeat.net

 Bagging Wild Sounds, part 1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 9:48

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 For a complete audio archive, and to find out more, visit: www.wildebeat.net

 Starting With Fire | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 9:55

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 For a complete audio archive, and to find out more, visit: www.wildebeat.net

 Stealth Gear | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 9:47

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 For a complete audio archive, and to find out more, visit: www.wildebeat.net

 Bear Cans Revisited, part 2 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:50

This wild places program is part two of an exploration of the situation in the Sierra Nevada wilderness areas that lead to the development of the bear-resistant food canister. (Part one is here.) Who makes these things, and how do we know they work? Steve tells the story with the help of: Harold Werner, a wildlife biologist from Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park. Calder Reid, wilderness manager for the Inyo National Forest. Allen DeForrest of Wild Ideas, manufacturer of the Bearikade. Tom Cohen of Ursack Jamie Hogan of Bear Vault. Josh Leavitt of Wilderness Solutions. Harold Werner and Calder Reid are members of the Sierra Interagency Black Bear Group (SIBBG), the standards-setting body for bear management in the major Sierra Nevada wilderness areas. Their group also performs the tests that lead to the approval of canisters for use in Yosemite National Park, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park, and the Inyo National Forest. Several other jurisdictions also require canisters from the SIBBG approved list. This edition was originally presented on August 31, 2006. Photo credit: Calder Reid, Inyo National Forest Show number 144 [MP3 format; length 10:50; 2,603,437 bytes] Combined show numbers 143 & 144, exntended version [MP3 format; length 21:13; 10,189,501 bytes] Show number 143 script Combined show numbers 143 & 144 script For a complete audio archive, and to find out more, visit: www.wildebeat.net

 WildeBeat Promo Clip | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:45

This is a 45 second promotional clip describing the show.

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