AN EXTINCTION OF A DIFFERENT KIND, longer version, w/ Clark's Nutcrackers counter-singing

THIS IS A longer version of this miniature. Grounded in wilderness. The family cohort of Clark's Nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana)was recorded aty 2500 meters, in JULY in the Eagle Cap Wilderness, OREGON. The Nutcrackers are a key avian species at altitude. The have for millennia been intimately related to the great WHITEBARK PINES. The relationship is an asymmetrical symbiosis, that is, the pines, because their cones do not open, is completely dependent on the birds to harvest, cache, and thereby distribute their seeds. So the Nutcrackers have an extremely high-quality freely-available food source above 2200 metes, so they stay high all year round, even in winter. But only if the pines are healthy, and still producing cones. With Climate Crisis, this relationship is being torn apart. A hotter, drier climate means the pines will retreat to higher, colder altitudes and latitudes. And the birds will migrate to lower, other food sources. Both will sadly become more and more locally extinct. With my writing and photography and music work, I am witnessing this drama right before my eyes, and ears. IMAGE: From my WHITEBARKS OF THE WALLOWAS Calendar.... The WHITEBARKS OF THE WALLOWAS free pdf eBOOK is at picture-poems.com/calendars/calend…tebarks_2019.pdf The LUNAR-SOLAR Calendar I refer to—celebrating Lunar New Year & the Year of the Pig!— is at cs-music.com/features/calendars…_calendar_2019.pdf PART TWO of this talk is at Cliff-crego – Zoom0058_xy-m4a FOR MORE BACKGROUND on the WHITEBARKS OF THE WALLOWAS project, I host a regularly updated dialogue resource page at: www.picture-poems.com/whitebarks TO HEAR or STUDY some of the first pieces for THE SOUND OF EXTINCTION project, go to on Soundcloud (1) STONEPINE SONATA, for violin & piano, "Allegro & Nightmusic," for young performers Cliff-crego – Stonepine-sonata-for-violin-piano-allegro-nightmusic-for-young-performers (2) PERCUSSION Study No. 2--in 5 voices [playing on WHITEBARK Pine instruments, performance model] Cliff-crego – 2-mix