'Voices of a Flyway' Episode 3: The Piney Woods

Episode 3: In this episode, we climb up into the pines of Central Louisiana. We’ve seen on the coast how big industry can end up dominating an ecosystem. Here, we look at three communities embroiled in their own fights to survive. To find out what it means to partner with the big industry on your doorstep, OR, to oppose it head on. 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?