First Tuesday: The Trees are Speaking
When: Tuesday, May 5, at 7pm.
Where: Location TBD
Join author and journalist Lynda Mapes for a talk and slideshow from her book The Trees are Speaking, just published by the University of Washington Press. Lynda will discuss the vital role of forests in our survival. Yet even in protected areas, our forests are victims of an apocalypse of invasive bugs, fire, and drought. Lynda will discuss her bicoastal journey as a fellow at the Harvard Forest, exploring the connected history of the loss of our old growth forests and the salmon, both Atlantic and Pacific, that they sustain. Lynda also will discuss the new thinking emerging in communities managing forests as more than just commodities.
This presentation is free and open to the public. Contact Bridger with any questions.
We encourage attendees to carpool to our events if possible. Call your neighbors, fill your car, reduce your emissions, and enjoy the company!
About Lynda
Lynda V. Mapes specializes in coverage of the environment and Indigenous cultures and governments. Over the course of her 27-year career as a reporter at The Seattle Times she earned numerous awards, including twice winning the international 2019 and 2012 Kavli Gold Award for science journalism from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest professional science association. She and a team of journalists at the Seattle Times were finalists for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting.
She has written seven books, including most recently The Trees are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests just published by the University of Washington Press. She is the winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award, and 2021 Washington State Book Award for non-fiction. She is an associate of the Harvard Forest, and lives in Seattle.