Since time immemorial, Indigenous people in the Pacific Northwest have been tending to the land with fire. Indigenous ways of knowing and understanding a place come from generations of careful exploration, experimentation, and observation. In recent centuries, non-Native ideas about fire and its relationships to land and people have dominated management policies and practices. As […]

Purchase tickets here. Join us on February 10 at 7 pm (doors at 6 pm) for our upcoming Forest Pub: Indigenous Land Management in the Willamette Valley with speaker David […]

PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS HERE Join our friends from the Port of Portland and project partners to hear stories behind the design, construction, and sourcing of the new main terminal at […]

Purchase tickets here!   Our forests are walking, but should they be running? Fossil evidence shows that trees naturally migrate, but with the current pace of climate change, they are struggling to keep up. As a result, scientists are exploring what might happen if we step in to assist them. OPB’s All Science No Fiction […]

Purchase tickets here What can the rings of trees tell us? Cutting-edge research is revealing that tree rings hold more information than simply a tree’s age. Each ring can teach us something about the past climate, local cultures, ecosystems, and even help reconstruct the history of wildfire. Develop a shared understanding of the ecological and […]

Stewarding Forest Park: How the Largest Urban Park Came to Be Purchase Tickets Here Forest Park is more than just trees and trails—it’s a living, breathing biodiversity sanctuary that has relied on community care for generations to come. Join the Forest Park Conservancy and local experts for a conversation about the park’s origins, the efforts […]