THE GORGE — A program to certify bird-friendly ranches could help restore the Columbia Plateau, free for any rancher who wants it, and the rapidly-vanishing bird species of the sagebrush.
HOOD RIVER — The third installment of Mt. Adams Institute’s Sense of Place Season 16 will arrive at Columbia Center for the Arts on Dec. 10. Titled “After Gifford Pinchot: Ancient Forests, Timber Wars, and a Century of Change,” the evening will welcome writer Rand Schenck for a deep dive into the past century of Pacific Northwest forest management.
HOOD RIVER — A Lummi Totem Pole, carved by the House of Tears Carvers, is on a two-week journey in September, holding events in tribal communities, public venues and places of worship in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California.
U.S. Forest Service offices in Portland charged with wildfire prevention, scientific research, forestland management and conservation across the Northwest would be shuttered and moved out of state under a new plan announced by the head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
HE FOLLOWING EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED, ACCORDING TO CGCC. A future date has not yet been announced.
Columbia Gorge Community College is hosting Oregon Book Award winner Omar El Akkad for a reading on Wednesday, Nov 30 at 6 p.m. The reading, followed by a Q&A, will take place in the CGCC Lecture Hall in Building 2 on The Dalles Campus.
