Big River Gathering
Join Columbia Riverkeeper and conservation photographer David Moskowitz on November 21 at The Ruins in Hood River, OR for a multimedia journey along the Columbia River from source to sea from 6:30pm-9pm.
This event will feature:
David Moskowitz, author/photographer for Big River (available for purchase at the event)
Simone Anter, Staff Attorney & Hanford Program Director, Columbia Riverkeeper
Lorri Epstein, Water Quality Director, Columbia Riverkeeper
Lauren Goldberg, Executive Director, Columbia Riverkeeper
Miles Johnson, Legal Director, Columbia Riverkeeper
The event is free and open to the public. Come enjoy free snacks and desserts. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages available for purchase. Donations for Columbia Riverkeeper are welcome and encouraged.
Due to space limitations, RSVP is required.
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.
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.
COLUMBIA RIVERKEEPER
Columbia Riverkeeper’s mission is to protect and restore the water quality of the Columbia River and all life connected to it, from the headwaters to the Pacific Ocean.