Missed the event? Watch a recording below!
What does a healthy forest sound like? What would you listen for to be able to tell? Angela Waupochick is trying to figure that out.
Angela is a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focusing on tribal-specific forest wetland management development in addition to forestry education planning. In the past year, she has launched a crucial bioacoustics project in ecologically and culturally important tribal forest-wetlands containing Black Ash trees up north.
Bioacoustics uses recording devices to capture the sounds of nature, including elusive creatures that might not be detected otherwise. Angela will discuss how paying close attention to sound, combined with other data, is valuable to determine habitat health of these vulnerable systems. She’ll share the long-term goals of her research as it relates to restoration, protection, and management, and talk about how her project helps to build forestry and management skills for high school students in the area. You’re definitely going to want to tune in!
Previously, Angela has been a seasonal wildland fire and water resources technician and a hydrologist with the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. A driving force behind the implementation of stream and wetland restoration activities, she was honored with a National Wetland Award from the Environmental Law Institute for Local, Tribal and State Program Development in 2019. Originally from Keshena, WI, she currently lives there with her husband Tony, children, a dog named Obi-wan, and a ridiculous flock of chickens and ducks. When she is not researching or restoring critical ecosystems, she enjoys sewing and making her yard look nice.
This event is co-sponsored by Community Shares of Wisconsin.
Cover image courtesy of Angela Waupochick. Angela and her team set up recording instruments in a Black Ash forest.
