A local favorite, this year’s Liz & Bob Frenkel Environment Series is about to kick off. Listening to the Land is the 2026 theme, The series takes place online over three evenings and advance registration is required, the links are below. These are free events.
As in the past, the series is sponsored by the Marys Peak Group of the Sierra Club, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, and the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition.
Here’s the info and links for pre-registration.
A Kalapuya Legacy: Oak Savannas and Prairies on OSU Lands
March 18th, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Please register here: cbcpl.net/Frenkel1
With Dr. Dennis Albert, OSU researcher
Learn how our local Oregon White Oaks and native herbaceous species on OSU lands reveal Kalapuya ancestral culture and about conditions today.
Implications Found in Ancient Trees of the OSU McDonald-Dunn Forest
April 8th, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Please register here: cbcpl.net/Frenkel2
With Dr. Meg Krawchuck and Charles Drake, OSU researchers
Learn how our local ancient Douglas-firs help us understand how ancestral Indigenous cultural practices, including fire, reflected and impacted the human experience and why it matters for current forest management.
Lessons from the Land: Cultivating Abundance through Land-Based Education
May 13th, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Please register here: cbcpl.net/Frenkel3
With Marta Capriles, Corvallis Waldorf School Agricultural Arts teacher
Learn how a schoolyard was developed into a dynamic farmscape in which the students tend the land and learn to work with its gifts through an indigenized curriculum.
For more information, contact the library at 541-766-6793.
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