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In Pauline Oliveros’s Some Sound Observations, she tells a story about a bulldozer crashing into her home while she is eating lunch. Later, she wonders about "the sound of a bull dozing." While my piece does not include that sound, it does contain many field recordings collected in Wood Buffalo National Park in the northern boreal forest of Alberta, Canada, which is one of the last places on Earth where wild bison roam, along with many other endangered mammals and birds. The park is far away from man-made civilization, but its waters are under constant threat from the bulldozers and other machinery of Canadian oil sands mining operations. This piece is dedicated to Pauline, who reminded us that "natural sound is healing sound."