As anthropogenic noise becomes more prevalent across habitats, its impacts on wildlife remain difficult to assess. To disentangle effects of industrial noise from confounding factors (i.e. well presence, human activity, roads), we developed a high-fidelity solar-powered broadcasting system to reproduce sound from wells in sites without wells. We are comparing these “noisy” sites with sites with no wells, sites containing broadcasting equipment that is turned off, sites with real and active wells, and sites with real wells that are turned off (silent); we are evaluating impacts of these treatments on abundance, nesting success, clutch size, age structure, body condition, stress physiology, adult and fledgling survival, communication, and parental care at nests of grassland songbirds.