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245 00 Protecting national park soundscapes /|cNational Academy
of Engineering in cooperation with the National Park
Service and the John A. Volpe National Transportation
Systems Center ; Proctor Reid and Steve Olson, Rapporteurs
; National Academy of Engineering of the National
Academies.
264 1 Washington, DC :|bThe National Academies Press,|c[2013]
264 4 |c©2013
300 1 online resource (59 pages)
336 text|2rdacontent
337 computer|2rdamedia
338 online resource|2rdacarrier
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504 Includes bibliographical references.
520 8 Annotation|bAmerica's national parks provide a wealth of
experiences to millions of people every year. What
visitors see--landscapes, wildlife, cultural activities--
often lingers in memory for life. And what they hear adds
a dimension that sight alone cannot provide. Natural
sounds can dramatically enhance visitors' experience of
many aspects of park environments. In some settings, such
as the expanses of Yellowstone National Park, they can
even be the best way to enjoy wildlife, because animals
can be heard at much greater distances than they can be
seen. Sounds can also be a natural complement to natural
scenes, whether the rush of water over a rocky streambed
or a ranger's explanation of a park's history. In other
settings, such as the New Orleans Jazz National Historical
Park, sounds are the main reason for visiting a park.The
acoustical environment is also important to the well-being
of the parks themselves. Many species of wildlife depend
on their hearing to find prey or avoid predators. If they
cannot hear, their survival is jeopardized--and the parks
where they live may in turn lose part of their natural
heritage. For all these reasons it is important to be
aware of noise (defined as unwanted sound, and in this
case usually generated by humans or machinery), which can
degrade the acoustical environment, or soundscape, of
parks. Just as smog smudges the visual horizon, noise
obscures the listening horizon for both visitors and
wildlife. This is especially true in places, such as
remote wilderness areas, where extremely low sound levels
are common. The National Park Service (NPS) has determined
that park facilities, operations, and maintenance
activities produce a substantial portion of noise in
national parks and thus recognizes the need to provide
park managers with guidance for protecting the natural
soundscape from such noise. Therefore, the focus of the
workshop was to define what park managers can do to
control noise from facilities, operations, and maintenance,
and not on issues such as the effects of noise on wildlife,
noise metrics, and related topics.To aid in this effort,
NPS joined with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
and with the US Department of Transportation's John A.
Volpe National Transportation Systems Center to hold a
workshop to examine the challenges and opportunities
facing the nation's array of parks. Entitled "Protecting
National Park Soundscapes: Best Available Technologies and
Practices for Reducing Park- Generated Noise," the
workshop took place October 3-4, 2012, at NPS's Natural
Resource Program Center in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Protecting National Park Soundscapes is a summary of the
workshop.
588 Description based on online resource; title from PDF title
page (ebrary, viewed May 5, 2013).
590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic
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650 0 National parks and reserves|zUnited States.|0https://
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650 7 Animal sounds.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/809395
651 7 United States.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204155
655 4 Electronic books.
655 7 Conference papers and proceedings.|2lcgft|0https://
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700 1 Reid, Proctor P.,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
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700 1 Olson, Steve,|d1956-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names
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710 2 National Academy of Engineering,|0https://id.loc.gov/
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710 2 John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
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710 1 United States.|bNational Park Service,|0https://id.loc.gov
/authorities/names/n79022809|eissuing body.
776 08 |iPrint version:|aReid, Proctor P.|tProtecting national
park soundscapes.|dWashington, D.C. : National Academies
Press, c2013|z0309285429|w(OCoLC)856039791
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