Sense of Place is excited to announce the line-up for the 14th annual Sense of Place Series. This season will feature a wide range of topics from beavers to wildfires and pears to insects. All events will be offered in person at the Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River, Oregon, and via livestream. 

Join Mt. Adams Institute for a Sense of Place lecture on, Forests, Wildfire, Timber Wars and Finding Common Ground, the lecture will me a panel discussion featuring Jay McLaughlin, Emily Platt, Susan Jane Brown, Les Perkins, which will be moderated by Sense of Place host/curator, Sarah Fox. on April 13th, 2022, at 7 p.m.

Join Mt. Adams Institute for a Sense of Place lecture on, A Model of Health: A History of Community Health Workers in the Gorge featuring Maria Antonia “Toña” Sanchez and Joel Pelayo on February 9th, 2022, at 7 p.m.

Join Mt. Adams Institute for a Sense of Place lecture on, Native Bees of the Gorge featuring Frances Fischer on January, 12th, 2022, at 7 p.m.

Join Mt. Adams Institute for a Sense of Place lecture on, Debris Flows from Mount Adams and Mount Hood featuring Richard Iverson, on November 10th, 2021, at 7 p.m. (doors at 6:30 p.m.) at Columbia Center for the Arts in downtown Hood River*.

Join Mt. Adams Institute and Jocelyn Akins, wildlife biologist and founder of Cascades Carnivore Project on November 10th for a Sense of Place lecture on, Rare Carnivores of the High Cascades featuring Jocelyn Akins, on November 10th, 2021, at 7 p.m. (doors at 6:30 p.m.) at Columbia Center for the Arts in downtown Hood River*.

Michael Beug will give a lecture on the ‘fungus among us’ in the Cascade region. Beug started mushrooming in 1969 and has discovered more than 50 new mushroom species in the Pacific Northwest.

Now in its 12th season, the popular lecture series will kick off with a lecture on the unusual mushrooms of Cascadia