ML137984
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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Rick Schneider. Timecode In: 00:05:20. Timecode out: 00:32:06. Notes: Boreal forest conservation. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Peter Lee. Timecode In: 00:32:52. Timecode out: 00:51:26. Notes: Boreal forest conservation. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Richard Thomas. Timecode In: 01:01:36. Timecode out: 01:21:29. Notes: Boreal birds. Subject 4: Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana). Timecode In: 01:14:58. Timecode out: 01:15:00. Behaviors: song. Subject 5: Boreal Chorus Frog (Pseudacris maculata). Timecode In: 01:18:38. Timecode out: 01:19:00. Subject 6: Canada Goose (Branta canadensis). Timecode In: 01:21:00. Timecode out: 01:21:20. Subject 7: Boreal Chorus Frog (Pseudacris maculata). Timecode In: 01:21:00. Timecode out: 01:21:20. Habitat: Forest. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo; Sennheiser MKH40 Cardioid Mid Mic and MKH30 Bidirectional Side Mic. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Boreal Songbirds Log of DAT #: 1 Engineer: Marcia Caldwell Date: June 6, 2003 afternoon 0:06 - 0:56 MC: What are they're names, Jeff? Rick? 0:08 EA: Rick is the tall guy and Peter is the White haired guy? 0:14 MC: Do you know their last names? 0:15 EA: Yeah, Rick Schneider and Peter Lee. 0:18 MC: and what's the name of the place we are? 0:20 EA: We're in the Mill Creek Ravine, 0:21 MC: Ok, alright. 0:22 EA: Do you want us to carry anything? 0:23 MC: No, I'm fine I just have to talk on the tape for a second. SO I have the HHBPDR1000 Professional DAT Recorder, I have MKH30 and MKH40, Stereo MS Rig with my MKH40 on the left channel and the 30 on the right channel and that's all I have for now. 0:52 Ambi. Walking, leaves crunching. 1:05 Ambi. Bird sounds. More walking. 1:21 Ambi. Bird whistling 1:31 Ambi. People laughing in the background. Walking with some bird and cricket (?) sounds 2:15 Ambi. Walking, kicking rocks. Begin to talk and laugh. 2:27 Everyone chatting, coughing, deciding where to do the interview, joking around with Rick. 3:48 EA: Really, the story that I want to do involves telling the story that everyone tells of the Boreal and the pressures, but through the birds, but I want to talk to you about the pressures in the Boreal. 4:10 RS: What I thought perhaps was that there was a paper that came out recently¿ 4:16 EA: I read it, the one that you did? 4:21 RS: In Conservation Ecology. 4:23 EA: Yeah, so we can talk about that. 4:24 RS: That helps me kind of frame it because the story is¿ 4:28 EA: Huge. 4:29 RS: Yeah, it just keeps rolling and we can ramble 4:33 EA: Yeah, just think about it as being for some guy in CT with no knowledge of the birds or Boreal Forest so we don't have to be specific with numbers 4:46 RS: Yeah, no, no, I appreciate that. And like Marilyn said, we should try and keep it as broad as possible, you know, the context. [cuts out] 4:55 RS: ¿to let the thing come through that, you know, it's just this big disaster. Toilet can give Alberta a flush because no one bothers and the study wasn't like that so hopefully I'll be able to bring that in as well. 5:08 EA: That's my sense as well. 5:10 EA swats a mosquito and they laugh about getting bitten. Rick Schneider Interview 5:14 EA: To start, why don't you tell me who you are. 5:22 RS: I'm Rick Schneider I recently have become the executive director for Canadian Parks and Wilderness, Edmonton Chapter. 5:30 EA: Tell me a little bit about that. What is Canadian Parks and Wilderness? 5:35 RW: CPW is a conservation organization, a national organization. We have chapters in most of the provinces and our mandate is the protection of wilderness throughout Canada. We recently started a national Boreal campaign that is taking up a lot of our time. 5:53 EA: Now you've been working in this area fo... (Notes truncated)
Additional species
- Western Tanager Piranga ludoviciana
- Boreal Chorus Frog Pseudacris maculata
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
Technical information
- Recorder
- HHB PORTADAT PDR 1000
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 40
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Archival information
- Cataloged
- 11 Nov 2008 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 11 Nov 2008 - Ben Brotman
- Edited
- 11 Nov 2008 - Ben Brotman