From the Crabtree Valley to the Imnaha River wilds, Marina Richie’s new book, Feathered Forest: Aloft with Birds in Ancient Trees, features several of Oregon’s threatened forests through the lens of the birds that depend upon them.
Join us for this journey from understory to canopy, as Marina takes us aloft with her as she climbs a 200-foot-tall Douglas-fir tree in the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, and explores ancient forests with environmentalists who defend them. Through photos, audio, video, and storytelling, Marina’s presentation is intended to convey the sensory beauty, biodiversity, complexity, and climate refugia of wild forests through the most radiant of messengers: birds!
Oregon Wild staff Chandra LeGue and Danielle Moser will also be on hand to discuss Oregon Wild’s work protecting ancient forests and furthering bird (and other wildlife) conservation. They’ll help you plug in to these efforts in relevant ways.
We will be raffling off a copy of Oregon’s Ancient Forests: A Hiking Guide and one of Marina’s new Feathered Forest books. Tickets are $5 and are an optional purchase below. Raffle tickets not only help us continue these Wednesday presentations but also support our work safeguarding Oregon’s wildlands, wildlife, and waters.
About the presenter:
Marina Richie is an award-winning nature writer with a passion for birds and wild places. Her book Halcyon Journey: In Search of the Belted Kingfisher received the 2024 John Burroughs Medal for distinguished natural history writing, a 2022 National Outdoor Book Award (gold), and a Foreword Indies Award (silver). Through prose and poetry, Marina seeks to bridge the divide separating people from nature. Her essays, blogs, and poems appear in popular and literary magazines. Marina has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Montana and an undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Oregon. She lives in Bend, Oregon, with her husband Wes and tends a bird-friendly yard.
