Oregon Humanities

Special Wordstock Conversation about Science, Stories, and Forest Policy

Writer Gail Wells will lead a discussion about how allegiance to place influences land-use policy.

14 September 2010 | Permalink

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?

This is the focus of a special Wordstock Festival event, “Seeding a Sense of Place: Science, Stories, and Smart Forest Policy,” a free conversation with independent writer and editor Gail Wells on Wednesday, October 6, 2010, at 6:00 p.m. at Hoyt Arboretum, Bill DeWeese Classroom, 4000 SW Fairview Blvd.

This is event is part of the Conversation Project, a program sponsored by Oregon Humanities that engages community members in thoughtful, challenging conversations about ideas critical to our daily lives and our state’s future.

Wells is an award-winning independent writer and editor specializing in history and natural-resource science. Her most recent book is The Little Lucky: A Family Geography (OSU Press, 2008). She is also the author of The Tillamook: A Created Forest Comes of Age (OSU Press, 1999) and coauthor of Lewis and Clark Meet Oregon’s Forests: Lessons from Dynamic Nature (Oregon Forest Resources Institute, 2001).

For more information about this free community discussion, please contact Director of Programs Jennifer Allen at (503) 241-0543 ×118 or by e-mail.