{"id":36,"date":"2023-04-18T22:10:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T22:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalfutures.asu.edu\/soundsofbelonging\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T21:25:38","slug":"melissa-nelson-chorus-of-great-horned-owls","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalfutures.asu.edu\/soundsofbelonging\/sounds\/melissa-nelson-chorus-of-great-horned-owls\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"unityblocks-hero\" class=\"wp-block-unityblocks-hero hide-content\" data-herotype=\"heading-hero\" data-image=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/globalfutures.asu.edu\/soundsofbelonging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/04\/Hero-Melissa.jpg&quot;,&quot;altText&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;cssClass&quot;:[],&quot;size&quot;:&quot;medium&quot;}\" data-subtitle=\"{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;highlightColor&quot;:&quot;white&quot;,&quot;maxWidth&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;cssClass&quot;:[]}\" data-title=\"{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Melissa Nelson &quot;,&quot;highlightColor&quot;:&quot;white&quot;,&quot;maxWidth&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;cssClass&quot;:[]}\" data-contents=\"[{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;maxWidth&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;cssClass&quot;:[],&quot;highlightColor&quot;:&quot;white&quot;}]\" data-contentscolor=\"white\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-bootstrap-blocks-container container mb-0 my-6 my-xl-10\">\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-bootstrap-blocks-row row mb-6\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sounds of Belonging by Melissa Nelson\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1432976839&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/sounds-of-belonging\" title=\"Sounds of Belonging by Melissa Nelson\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Sounds of Belonging<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/sounds-of-belonging\/melissa-nelson\" title=\"Melissa Nelson\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Melissa Nelson<\/a><\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-4\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-bootstrap-blocks-row row\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading mt-6\"><span class=\"highlight-black\">About the artist<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-bootstrap-blocks-row row mt-2\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-3 mr-10\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/globalfutures.asu.edu\/soundsofbelonging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/04\/headshot-mknelso4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalfutures.asu.edu\/soundsofbelonging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/04\/headshot-mknelso4.jpg 299w, https:\/\/globalfutures.asu.edu\/soundsofbelonging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/04\/headshot-mknelso4-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<p><strong><strong>Melissa Nelson\u2019s sound of belonging is the chorus of great horned owls in Northern California. (3:04)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melissa Nelson is a professor of Indigenous Sustainability at ASU and a grassroots leader with a number of Indigenous organizations dedicated to land stewardship, food justice, and the revitalization of biocultural heritage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-bootstrap-blocks-row row mt-6\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading mt-6\"><span class=\"highlight-black\">Audio transcript<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-bootstrap-blocks-row row\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<p>In the liminal space between winter and spring and day and night, the great horned owls hoot in the deep woods of Mount Tamalpais. Their syncopated timing is impeccable and sometimes punctuated by a crow, a sparrow, another owl, even the sharp bark of a spotted owl. A rare sound from an endangered species. For some reason, the spotted owl persists in this fragmented second and third growth Redwood Grove on the ancestral and contemporary lands of the Coast Miwok peoples on Mount Tamalpais. It\u2019s ironic they are protected somehow on the edge of the sprawling San Francisco Bay area, sandwiched between commuter freeways and condos and the wild shores of the Pacific Ocean. I think it\u2019s the contrast of the owls\u2019 persistent, urgent, and vibrant calls. And then the deep silence between their hoots that gives me this feeling of home and belonging. The owls sound so deliberate, so certain of their own voice. In the gaps there is this pregnant anticipation. It feels so alive and comforting to me. Their rhythmic calls remind me of now. The mystery of this present moment. Being fully alive. I think these hoots have probably reverberated on this mountain, and in these forested canyons, for centuries. They are truly at home here and remind me that I am too.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"uds_featured_image":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Melissa Nelson - Sounds of Belonging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Melissa Nelson&#039;s sound of belonging is the chorus of great horned owls in Northern California.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/globalfutures.asu.edu\/soundsofbelonging\/sounds\/melissa-nelson-chorus-of-great-horned-owls\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Melissa Nelson - 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