Acoustic Atlas: Montana State University MSU Library
| The Robert W. Davison Collection
Description: Main site for the Western Soundscapes.
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The Western Soundscape Archive is housed at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library and features audio recordings contributed by volunteers, government agencies and conservation groups. The project's geographic focus includes the eleven contiguous western states - Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming - as well as baseline sound monitoring in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
The website offers representative sounds of more than 570 different Western bird species, all of the region's vocalizing frogs and toads, dozens of reptiles and more than 100 different types of mammals. Longer ambient recordings are also available from a wide variety of remote and wild places throughout the West.
The archive is supported in part by a major grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Acoustic Atlas: Montana State University MSU Library
| The Robert W. Davison Collection