’Voices of a Flyway’ Episode 7: The Boreal Forest

Episode 7: In this episode, we go inside a place altogether different than anything we’ve seen before. An ecosystem ... still intact. Where true wildness and untold value, still remains. In these North Woods that grow at the source if it all, there’s a chance to do things differently. And we …. have a collective decision to make. What can we learn from our wildest remaining place? And will we learn the lessons from the places we’ve seen, and protect what’s here before it goes the way they have? To learn more about the project, visit www.voicesofaflyway.com/explore to start exploring our 6 interactive story maps that feature more of the stories, photos, and videos of the project! Funded by an Explorer grant from National Geographic, our team - a soundscape recordist, an audio producer, and a wildlife photographer - traveled from the Louisiana coastline to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota with the 2019 spring songbird migration. We visited six at-risk ecosystems along the route to uncover: 1. Why each of these delicate ecosystems is so critical to bird migration. 2. The infinite ways that people living in these areas share connections to the natural world. 3. What stands to be lost as these ecosystems vanish?