Event Details Where: Click here to watch the recorded lecture. Lecture Description: An extraordinary time in Oregon history occurred in central Oregon, when a religious sect from India set up an experiment on a cattle ranch outside Madras. In the 1980s, the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh...
Sense of Place is Returning In Person!
Sense of Place is returning to live, in-person lectures. Join us on March 9th at 7 p.m. at the Columbia Center for the Arts to learn about Rajneeshees in Oregon with Les Zaitz. This event will have limited in-person ticket sales, but will also be live-streamed so viewers may watch virtually....
SOP 12: A Model of Health: A History of Community Health Workers in the Gorge
Event Details Where: Click here to watch the recorded lecture. Lecture Description: In the 1980s, a new idea was gaining momentum in the Gorge. It came in response to a familiar challenge – how do we keep people healthy? Does it start and stop at the doctor’s office? How might other factors, like...
SOP 12: Native Bees of the Gorge
Event Details Where: Click here to watch the recorded lecture. Additional Resources: Plants that attract native pollinators year round Oregon Bee Project - Bee Atlas What you can do in our backyard to help save the bees! Lecture Description: The Columbia River Gorge is buzzing with spectacular...
SOP 12: Debris Flows from Mount Adams and Mount Hood
Event Details Where: Click here to watch the recorded lecture. Lecture Description Debris flows are rapidly moving, water-saturated masses of rock and sediment that occur naturally on volcanoes like Mount Adams and Mount Hood. Small, storm-triggered debris flows occur routinely and commonly go...
SOP 12: Rare Carnivores of the High Cascades
Event Details Where: Click here to watch the recorded lecture. Additional Resources: Check out this podcast on wolverines Lecture Description: Two rare carnivores roam the high-alpine regions of the Washington Cascades. Wolverines were once eliminated entirely from Washington, but eventually began...
SOP 12: The Unusual Mushrooms of Cascadia
Event Details Where: Click here to watch recorded lecture. Additional Resources: Mycomatch.com & mushroomsofcascadia.com Lecture Description: Virtually every habitat found anywhere in the entire Cascadia Region, from southern Alaska to Central California and from the ocean to the west slopes...
SOP 11 – Pikas Under Fire: American Pika Ecology and Behavior in a time of Global Change
Watch lecture recording here! Lecture Description: Climate change is forcing many alpine species to higher elevations, including American pikas (Ochotona princeps), small rabbit-relatives that typically inhabit high-elevation mountain ranges of western North America. However, despite dramatic...
SOP 11: How to Hunt With a Vegan (Extra)
In honor of Season 11, the Sense of Place Team presents a special short film "How to Hunt With a Vegan" featuring Seth Tibbott, founder of Tofurky and November's guest speaker. Interested in learning more about Pikas after Season 11 of Sense of Place? Check out this OPB Documentary!
SOP 11 – The Legacy and Promise of Land Grant Universities and Oregon State University Extension in the Gorge
Watch lecture recording here! Lecture Description: After more than a century in existence, what have we learned from local Extension Services? When Ann Harris interviewed for her position at OSU Extension, she had no idea what a “land grant” university was. She also didn’t know how the Extension...
SOP 12: Rajneeshees in Oregon
Event Details Where: Click here to watch the recorded lecture. Lecture Description: An extraordinary time in Oregon history occurred in central Oregon, when a religious sect from India set up an experiment on a cattle ranch outside Madras. In the 1980s, the Indian...
Sense of Place is Returning In Person!
Sense of Place is returning to live, in-person lectures. Join us on March 9th at 7 p.m. at the Columbia Center for the Arts to learn about Rajneeshees in Oregon with Les Zaitz. This event will have limited in-person ticket sales, but will also be live-streamed so...
SOP 12: A Model of Health: A History of Community Health Workers in the Gorge
Event Details Where: Click here to watch the recorded lecture. Lecture Description: In the 1980s, a new idea was gaining momentum in the Gorge. It came in response to a familiar challenge – how do we keep people healthy? Does it start and stop at the doctor’s office?...
SOP 12: Native Bees of the Gorge
Event Details Where: Click here to watch the recorded lecture. Additional Resources: Plants that attract native pollinators year round Oregon Bee Project - Bee Atlas What you can do in our backyard to help save the bees! Lecture Description: The Columbia River...
SOP 12: Debris Flows from Mount Adams and Mount Hood
Event Details Where: Click here to watch the recorded lecture. Lecture Description Debris flows are rapidly moving, water-saturated masses of rock and sediment that occur naturally on volcanoes like Mount Adams and Mount Hood. Small, storm-triggered debris flows occur...
SOP 12: Rare Carnivores of the High Cascades
Event Details Where: Click here to watch the recorded lecture. Additional Resources: Check out this podcast on wolverines Lecture Description: Two rare carnivores roam the high-alpine regions of the Washington Cascades. Wolverines were once eliminated entirely from...
SOP 12: The Unusual Mushrooms of Cascadia
Event Details Where: Click here to watch recorded lecture. Additional Resources: Mycomatch.com & mushroomsofcascadia.com Lecture Description: Virtually every habitat found anywhere in the entire Cascadia Region, from southern Alaska to Central California and from...
SOP 11 – Pikas Under Fire: American Pika Ecology and Behavior in a time of Global Change
Watch lecture recording here! Lecture Description: Climate change is forcing many alpine species to higher elevations, including American pikas (Ochotona princeps), small rabbit-relatives that typically inhabit high-elevation mountain ranges of western North America....
SOP 11: How to Hunt With a Vegan (Extra)
In honor of Season 11, the Sense of Place Team presents a special short film "How to Hunt With a Vegan" featuring Seth Tibbott, founder of Tofurky and November's guest speaker. Interested in learning more about Pikas after Season 11 of Sense of Place? Check out this...
SOP 11 – The Legacy and Promise of Land Grant Universities and Oregon State University Extension in the Gorge
Watch lecture recording here! Lecture Description: After more than a century in existence, what have we learned from local Extension Services? When Ann Harris interviewed for her position at OSU Extension, she had no idea what a “land grant” university was. She also...