Science Pub: Science, Spirituality and a Sustainable Future

Worthy Brewing 495 Northeast Bellevue Drive, Bend, OR, United States

Join us for a fascinating Science Pub looking at the connections between science and religion. OSU-Cascades biologist Matt Orr will explain how the Anthropocene, Earth’s present geological epoch, is defined by a decline in environmental ecosystems, as well as by human responses to the decline in the forms of anxiety, guilt, grief and illness. Orr…

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Ethnobotany of the Klamath Basin

Worthy Brewing 495 Northeast Bellevue Drive, Bend, OR, United States

Native cultures have called the Klamath Basin home for millennium and have developed a long and intimate relationship with the native plants of the Basin for food, medicine, tools, and clothing.  In this talk,  Erin Rentz, Botanist with Six Rivers National Forest, will discuss a selection of culturally significant plants and the importance of management of these resources. Erin…

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