Curating the state's natural sounds

Mammoth Lakes, California. By http://www.flickr.com/photos/moonjazz/122391/

The main galleries of the Oakland Museum of California just reopened, and deep in the basement, there's something still very much alive. The California Library of Natural Sounds started with some crickets and a couple of frogs, and has expanded into a sound collection that's hard to contain inside the gallery walls.

Reporter Julie Caine takes us inside the Library for this report.

You can hear more of the region's natural sounds online.

This story originally aired on December 14, 2010.