A few years ago, an “acoustic portrait” of Pando — a vast clonal aspen colony in the USA — was released to raise awareness of this astonishing tree and the threats it faces. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Recordings of humpback whale songs released as records in the 1960s helped turn public opinion in most of the world against whaling and save not just humpbacks but many whale species from extinction. Inspired by this success, an acoustic technician undertook a similar project with a tree colony larger than an entire pod of whales: the quaking aspen ( Populus tremuloides ) known as Pando .

At an Acoustical Society of America conference in May 2023, Jeff Rice and Lance Oditt from Friends of Pando presented

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