Becoming Water Wise
Natalie Olsen explores how residents of the Deschutes River Basin are adapting a century-old water management system for a drought-persistent era.
Channeling the Stories of the Local Watershed
Taking inspiration from an unlikely source, a new production by Sarah Fox spotlights the interconnected narratives of the Columbia River Gorge.
Editor's Note: Currents
Ben Waterhouse on the complexity of telling stories about water in Oregon
Finding Common Ground Speaker Series: Centering Native Voices
Join Harney County Library to learn about the many ways communities of diverse perspectives collaborate to solve the complex challenges we face here in frontier rural America, from natural resource management to economic development. This month's speaker is Native writer and activist Jacqueline Keeler. Funding for this program is provided by Oregon Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Oregon Cultural Trust.
Losing the Forest for the Trees
Juliet Grable writes about how a massive die-off of white fir has unsettled the mountain community in Southern Oregon where she lives.
We Will Be Here
Lana Jack writes about the mourning, resilience, and resistance of the Celilo Wy-am.
Purple Prairie
Josephine Woolington on how tribal members and conservationists are trying, camas patch by camas patch, to create a patchwork of native prairie in the Willamette Valley. An excerpt from Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest
Sagebrush Solar
Juliet Grable writes about how Lake County is embracing renewable energy.
The Bottom of the Toolbox
Leaders and activists in Eugene hope a bureaucratic negotiation can help the city meet its climate goals.
The Bakken Breaks
Jennifer Strange writes about how she and her husband, both avowed environmentalists, found themselves working North Dakota's Bakken oil fields.
People, Places, Things
Gwen Trice in Maxville, Oregon
Out of the Woods
Ruby McConnell on meeting a lost boy in a Cascades forest
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Stewarding Our Public Forests
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Film screening: No Man's Land
The High Desert Museum presents a screening of David Byars' documentary about the 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, followed by a facilitated discussion. This program is made possible in part by a Responsive Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.
Whose Land?
The High Desert Museum presents a community conversation about public lands. This program is made possible in part by a Responsive Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.
Malheur Reflections, Two Years Later
A discussion of the Malheur occupuation, restoration, and public lands in Oregon. This program is made possible in part by a Responsive Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Stewarding Our Public Forests
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
The Original Laws
Joe Whittle writes about the sacred ethics of Columbia River tribes and how they provide a guide for restoring ecosystems damaged by European colonization.
Conversation Project: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Stewarding Our Public Forests
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
PLAYA Presents: Calligraphy of the Wind
A discussion with PLAYA resident and novelist Leslie Schwartz about the ways that specific places and communities shape the creative process.
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Stewarding Our Public Forests
Conversation Project: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Stewarding Our Public Forests
Conversation Project: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Stewarding Our Public Forests
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Think & Drink on Tourism in Tillamook County
Tillamook County Pioneer Museum and Oregon Humanities present a conversation on the challenges and benefits of tourism in Tillamook County.
History in the News
A panel discussion putting the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse in social and historical perspective with other monumental natural phenomena. This event is funded in part by a grant from Oregon Humanities.
Pollination Power
Join Jenifer Ferriel, Forest Botanist with the US Forest Service, to learn more about pollinators and their host plants. This program is funded by a Responsive Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
"Fish Tales" Seafood Panel Discussion
Exploring local seafood on the North Oregon Coast. Oregon Humanities is a cosponsor of this event.
Conversation Project: What We Want from the Wild
In this conversation, Oregon Humanities Executive Director Adam Davis will help participants step back from policy decisions and consider more basic questions about our relationship to the mountains, air, trees, animals, and streams around us. What do we want from nature? What do we understand nature to be, and how do we see ourselves fitting in?
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: What We Want from the Wild
Oregonians across the political spectrum place a high value on the diverse natural resources of our state, but we are divided about how these resources should be used and talked about. In this conversation, Oregon Humanities Executive Director Adam Davis will help participants step back from policy decisions and consider more basic questions about our relationship to the mountains, air, trees, animals, and streams around us.
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Gaining Ground Film Screening and Discussion
This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: What We Want from the Wild
Oregonians across the political spectrum place a high value on the diverse natural resources of our state, but we are divided about how these resources should be used and talked about. In this conversation, Oregon Humanities Executive Director Adam Davis will help participants step back from policy decisions and consider more basic questions about our relationship to the mountains, air, trees, animals, and streams around us.
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
A Pollinator's Plight
A discussion and screening on the importance of native bees. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
Supporting Pollinators
A panel discussion on ways to support native pollinators in our communities. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Wonder, Bread
Seeking the sacred in the mundane world. An excerpt from Great Tide Rising: Toward Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change by Kathleen Dean Moore
This Way through Oregon
Illustrating the systems that move salmon, waste, traffic, and legislation
The River Fix
Journalist Valerie Rapp on the complexities of dam removal
Water Wars
Journalist J. David Santen Jr. on how battles, compromises, and resolutions abound in a state flush with water.
The State That Timber Built
Tara Rae Miner on what Oregon owes the struggling timber communities that helped shape the state’s identity