Dennis

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Sounder

Ahearn Standup

Orca Spot

Dead Orca

We were sitting around the campfire at #StandingRock when a man came out of the darkness and asked to join us. We gave him coffee and he looked into the flames and began to tell a story. It gave me chills and I was going to edit it down, package it for the radio, but then decided these words need to be heard as is. So here they are.

Kevin's Prophecy

This is audio recorded by Jesse Barber for a study on how noise disrupts migratory bird behavior near Boise, ID. By simulating the sound of a road, Barber was able to document diminished feeding patterns among birds in the area where the noise was present.

Phantom Road Audio

There were shouts and cheers throughout the activist camps in North Dakota when protesters there heard the big news from the federal government Sunday. The Army Corps of Engineers denied the easements for the Dakota Access Pipeline to be drilled beneath the Missouri River. Construction has stopped, pending further environmental review. Ace Baker is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux but he lives with his family on the Swinomish Reservation near La Conner, Washington. Ashley Ahearn reached him by cell phone on Sunday night to hear his reaction to the news.