131: Predawn Beside Bigelow Creek

This was recorded in the predawn hours beside Bigelow Creek in Bigelow Meadow Botanical Area, Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Siskiyou County, California. There was still several feet of snow blanketing the forest floor and the creek was flowing well, whereas at this time last year what little snow there was had long since melted and the creek was dry. After a couple years of severe drought, it's very nice to see so much water back on the land.

I recorded this using the tree ears recording technique, in which a microphone is fixed to either side of the trunk of a tree. In this case the tree was a standing dead White Fir(Abies concolor) that was beside the creek. I snowshoed about three and a half miles from the highway to set up the microphones and recorder on the afternoon prior to this recording, and came back to retrieve it the next day. This part of that recording is from the time late at night and early in the morning when there is mostly no air traffic. In this four and a half hour recording there is only one distant jet passing by.

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