Alexis Baer                                                                                       about 150 words
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Student, INTD 105-19: Writing Science

“Whisper of the Wild” Response
By Alexis Baer

“Whisper of the Wild” by Kim Tingley is about listening to our surroundings and experiencing nature in Denali National Park. Within todays society, it is very difficult to only hear the sounds of nature considering the constant human interference with machines, aircrafts, and other advanced technology that we have become used to. Since it is hard to know what nature is suppose to sound like, ecologists and engineers have created soundscape ecology which is being tested on what these sounds are and how it negatively can affect the population or different species. Soundscape was one of the reasons that Tingley and Davyd Betchka’s decided to traveled to Alaska, in order to listen and observe the natural sounds that nature has to offer. Tingley’s article about soundscape is similar to my one of my own personal experiences where I camped out in the middle of the woods for a few days and based off only aural senses, I had to identify different animals based on their individual sounds.