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the Spring Creek Project Mission:

         The challenge of the Spring Creek Project is to bring together the            practical wisdom of the environmental sciences, the clarity of philosophical analysis, and the creative, expressive power of the written word, to find new ways to understand and re-imagine our relation to the natural world.       

               

                       Upcoming Events

Fall Term 2008:

                 "The Sea, The Forest, The Night Sky"

Thursday, 7 pm, October 9

      Reading by Julia Whitty, author of The Fragile Edge                                           Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, free, open to all  

Friday,  1-5 pm, October 10 

     Writing Workshop with Julia Whitty: "Writing Science, Scientists as Writers"             (location TBD: check back for details)

Saturday, 7 pm, October 18

      Reading / Conversation with Paul Bogard, editor, Let There Be Night:
           Testimony on Behalf of the Dark
(location TBD)

Wednesday, 7 pm, November 12

       Reading and slideshow with Tim Palmer, author / photographer,                       Trees and Forests of America (location TBD)

                        News

 

Forestry Students Named First Recipients of Mason Prize

The first recipients of Oregon State University’s Mason Prize for Integrity and Moral Courage are Cristina Eisenberg and Daniel Donato, graduate students in the OSU College of Forestry.

The prize, which includes an honorarium of $1,000 to each recipient, is designed to “honor, encourage, and empower people at Oregon State University whose work demonstrates academic virtues.” It was created earlier this year and will be administered by OSU’s Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word.  read more>>

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More News

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    Fall 2008 writers in residence announced:

Playwright Sharmon Hilfinger (Palo Alto, CA) and composer Joan McMillen (Portland, OR) have been chosen for the next Collaborative Retreat at Shotpouch Creek.

Poet Maya Jewell Zeller (Spokane, WA) and non-fiction writer Thomas Lowe Fleischner (Prescott, AZ) are the recipients of the Fall 2008 Andrews Forest Writers Residencies. 

Next application deadline:              December 31, 2008

for Spring 2009 residencies 

                 

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In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens edited by Charles Goodrich, Frederick J. Swanson, and Kathleen Dean Moore published by OSU Press. 


     Most of the contributors to this volume camped together on Mount St. Helens for four days in 2005— hiking, learning the ecology, sharing ideas—as part of a Spring Creek-sponsored "foray"....read more >>

Click here to read a review of         In the Blast Zone


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