Red Barn Event: The Trees are Speaking

Name: Red Barn Event: The Trees are Speaking
Start: 2025-09-04T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-04T20:00:00-07:00
Location: 347 Division Street, PO Box 2073, Leavenworth, WA, United States, Washington 98826

Schedule

Thu Sep 04 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

347 Division Street, PO Box 2073, Leavenworth, WA, United States, Washington 98826 | Leavenworth, WA

This event is hybrid! Join us either in person at WRI, or on YouTube here:

This is a partnered event with a Book for all Seasons and the Wenatchee River Institute.
Doors open at 6:30pm for a community social with beer and wine available for purchase. The presentation will start at 7:00pm.
Join author and journalist Lynda V. Mapes for a discussion about changing our relationship with forests. Long regarded as commodities primarily for growing wood products, today we know forests are essential to community wellbeing, climate stability, wildlife, and clean water and air. We need to shift our relationship with forests to emphasize caretaking, respect, and reciprocity. Lynda will share examples of sustainable forestry practices underway in our region and beyond that take care of people, forests, and wildlife, drawing from her new book, The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests.
About the Presenter:
Lynda V. Mapes covers environmental and Indigenous issues for the Seattle Times. She is author of six books, including most recently Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home, winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award and the 2021 Washington State Book Award for nonfiction. Her journalism has earned numerous awards, including the international 2019 and 2012 Kavli gold award for science journalism from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is also an associate of the Harvard Forest of Harvard University, in Petersham, MA.