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Tickets for this event are $5 general admission or book purchase. Join award-winning nature writer Marina Richie to discuss her newest book, Feathered Forest: Aloft with Birds in Ancient Tree, where she entwines the lives of birds with a hidden vertical world of wild trees. Beginning with an ascent of a 200-foot-tall Douglas-fir with a bird biologist, Richie leads us from her home in Central Oregon into the ancient forests of Cascadia, a bioregion which rivals the Amazonian rainforest in significance for climate and biodiversity. Birds are guides to intricate and imperiled communities thriving at every level, from understory to midstory to overstory. They steer us to cool havens within multilayered, centuries-old groves that are critical refugia in a time of climate crisis. Their songs and flights show us what we must protect for the future of threatened birds, forests, and humankind.
A narrative of perception change, memoir, and kinship, Feathered Forest is a soaring ode to birds and wild trees.
Marina Richie is the author of the forthcoming book, Feathered Forest: Aloft with Birds in Ancient Trees (September 2026). Her book, Halcyon Journey, In Search of the Belted Kingfisher, earned the 2024 John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, a National Outdoor Book Award (gold), and a Foreword Indies Award (silver). She also wrote two children’s books, Bird Feats of Montana and Bug Feats of Montana. Her poems and prose accompany artist Robin Coen’s watercolors in Refugia of the Blue Mountains, a traveling exhibit with an accompanying book.
Marina’s writing appears in literary and popular magazines, online publications, in book collections, and on her website. She gives keynote talks, podcast interviews, teaches nature writing, and serves on the board of the Greater Hells Canyon Council.
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900 NW Mt. Washington Dr. Suite #110, Bend, OR, United States, Oregon 97703
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