A Great Conversation @ the Museum - Free

Not satisfied with the conversations you've been having lately? Why not join us Thursday evening at the Museum and be engaged with your community in a thoughtful, challenging conversation about ideas critical to our daily lives and our state’s future. On Oct. 21 at 7 p.m., award-winning writer and editor Gail Wells will discuss Seeding a Sense of Place: Science, Stories, and Smart Forest Policy, an Oregon Humanities Lecture.

What affects our opinions about forest use? How do we build meanings into places through storytelling and public policy? How does our allegiance to places affect our opinions about land use, particularly forest use? How do we build meanings into places individually and collectively through storytelling and public policy?

Wells is an award-winning writer and editor specializing in history and natural-resource science. Her most recent book is The Little Lucky: A Family Geography. She is also the author of The Tillamook: A Created Forest Comes of Age and coauthor of Lewis and Clark Meet Oregon’s Forests: Lessons from Dynamic Nature.

The event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by Oregon Humanities