iNaturalist In The News: Oregon Roadkills Project

Great radio piece on the Oregon Roadkills Project.

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/07/24/oregon-wildlife-regulators-want-help-tracking-roadkill-inaturalist-highway/

Got a kick out of @sedgequeen quote “… I did the taxidermy to make them look neatly dead.” (They abbreviated it in the transcript.)

Kudos to @tiwane too!

17 Likes

It’s an important project Thant can save thousands of animal lives. Very nice @sedgequeen!

7 Likes

Love that one:
I have never seen a bobcat in the wild, except for one that was flat as a pancake in Wasco County.

3 Likes

Nice to hear your voice, @sedgequeen!

4 Likes

I read the article yesterday, and I didn’t know what Tony was talking about! You heard @sedgequeen’s voice? :thinking:

When I first read the article, I saw that there was an audio bar, but I didn’t click on it, because you can probably read an article faster than you can listen to it. And do you really want to listen to some bot read a news article? :robot:

Because of Tony’s comment above, I went back and clicked on the audio bar, and to my surprise, it is NOT a bot reading the article!

It is actually a supplemental audio piece, narrated by the journalist, and with various audio clips edited into it. This adds value! I have never seen this before.

If you’re like me, and you didn’t click on the audio, check it out! It lets you listen at 2x, so you can save time :fast_forward: :alarm_clock: :100:

2 Likes

[quote=“awarg, post:5, topic:53782”]
If you’re like me, and you didn’t click on the audio, check it out! [/quote]

Yes - I also totally missed the audio bar! very nice audio piece, and thank you as well for making sure it wasn’t missed!

2 Likes

It aired as radio piece the day before it was posted. We’re lucky to have a thriving local/regional publicly supported media network.
I’m still pretty analog in how I take my media, pretty much just what comes over the airwaves. ;)

5 Likes

Edited my remarks to make it clear it’s an audio piece at the opening of thread.

2 Likes

This topic was automatically closed 60 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.