Big River
Presented by the Spring Creek Project
and the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library
On November 20 at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library in Corvallis, OR at 6pm, experience a multimedia journey along the Columbia River from source to sea with conservation photographer and author David Moskowitz. This event will be held in the library’s main meeting room.
This event is co-sponsored by the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library and the Spring Creek Project. Grass Roots Books will have copies of the book available at this event.
In Big River: Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin, (new June 2024 from Braided River) award-winning photographer David Moskowitz and writer Eileen Delehanty Pearkes illuminate the natural history, hydrogeology, beauty, and human activity on the Columbia River, while also highlighting the challenges facing the region and the people working on sustainable solutions.
This event is part of a series of international book events celebrating the book launch of Big River throughout the Pacific Northwest. Big River explores the Columbia River watershed as one living, interdependent entity that embraces a broad cultural and ecological perspective.
Through rich and comprehensive images of the land, river, and people and micro-interviews from diverse voices across the region, Big River explores the Columbia River Basin as a single living, interdependent entity.
The culmination of Moskowitz’s many years of photographing the river and exploring its watershed and Eileen’s decades of research, Big River seeks a path forward for the Columbia River watershed, balancing the demands around water, salmon, agriculture, energy, and climate with the fundamental need for a sustainable living river.
About the Presenter
DAVID MOSKOWITZ
Big River photographer and author | speaker
Photographer, author, wildlife biologist, and tracker David Moskowitz is the author of Caribou Rainforest, Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest, and Wolves in the Land of Salmon, and coauthor of Peterson’s Field Guide to North American Bird Nests. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Sierra, High Country News, and Audubon Magazine, as well as by organizations such as the National Wildlife Federation, Endangered Species Coalition, and Nature Conservancy of Canada.
THE SPRING CREEK PROJECT
Spring Creek Project invites people and communities to explore ways of living more just and joyful lives with one another and the planet.
Some of [Spring creek’s] communities gather in person through public events, readings and residencies. Other communities come together in virtual spaces through [their] video and podcast series.
Since [their] founding in 2002, [they] have hosted hundreds of public events and more than a thousand creative residencies.
[they] host events throughout the year on Oregon State’s campus and in the Corvallis community and surrounding area. [their] events are free and open to the public.