If we listen to the desert as ecologist Jack Loeffler has done for over forty years, we can hear how the composition and structure of the bird and mammal community shifts through the seasons and over longer periods of time as species are lost or gained.
Jack re-records them every few years in a sort of “changing mile” documentation for our ears. When one species is lost the soundscape shifts to fill in … or if too many species are lost, it has aural holes in it.
What if all of us truly listened to the place where we live?
