An Evening with David Rains Wallace &
Green Fire film screening

On Friday, May 10th from 7:00-9:30 p.m. at the Arcata Playhouse David Rains Wallace will introduce the film Green Fire about the life and times of Aldo Leopold. Leopold is generally considered the major American conservationist of the twentieth century. Our ideas of wilderness preservation, biodiversity conservation, and ecological integrity essentially come from him. Leopold’s book, A Sand County Almanac, develops these ideas as well as his concept of the land ethic, which proposes extending to land and its non-human life the "right to life" traditionally reserved for human beings. Wallace has written about Leopold in Sierra magazine, the New York Times Book Review. and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.

Learn more:

• About David Rains Wallace
• About the film

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Join us for the story of a small but committed group of local, tribal, state and federal land managers who embarked upon a mission to bring back prescribed fire as a tool to protect communities and ecosystems across Northern California. Drawing on interviews with scientists, tribal and federal land managers, and savvy residents from across the North State, the film provides insight into how our relationship to fire can be restored.
A panel discussion about regional fire will follow the film.

Panellist scheduled to attend include the film’s producers Will Harling and Jenny Staats, HSU Fire Ecologist Dr. Jeffrey Kane, and Eco-Cultural Restoration Specialist for the Karuk Tribe Bill Tripp.

Learn more:

• About the film

Where is the Arcata Playhouse? CLICK HERE

Conifers of the Pacific Slope is a field guide to 65 conifers in California, Oregon, and Washington.

Educator, plant explorer, and author Michael Kauffmann introduces readers to the magic of the Pacific Slope's conifers through:

• Color plates for all 65 conifers (species and subspecies)
• Accurate and updated range maps for each species
• 47 suggested destinations to find these amazing conifers
• An elaborate key to aide with identification
• Stunning photographs from across the West

estimated it will cost $24.95 paper
$14.95 eBook

Coming in Spring 2013

On Thursday, December 6th from 7:00-9:00 p.m. at the Arcata Playhouse there will be a screening of A Wild American Forest, a film about the Klamath Mountain region. In addition to the one hour film there will be a discussion with Susan Harrison, an expert on serpentine soils from UC Davis. She will share her current research in the Klamath—revisiting botanical plots set up Robert Whittaker in the 1960’s. Admission is on a sliding scale from $3.00-$5.00 and beer, wine and snacks will be served for an additional donation. The California Native Plant Society, NorthCoast Environmental Center, Humboldt State University Natural History Museum, and Backcountry Press are co-sponsoring the event in conjunction with the Geos Institute who funded the film.