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February 11 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Nature Night | Canopy of Titans: Forests as a Natural Climate Solution
Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate’s book Canopy of Titans examines the global importance of the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest. Their urgent and authoritative account sets out the threats facing a vital environmental resource, and celebrates the beauty and complexity of one of the world’s great forests.
Their talk will tell the inside story about how Canopy of Titans came about, what they found about forests as a natural climate solution, and what can be done to maximize their benefit to the climate.
About Paul & Jessica:
Paul Koberstein is the editor of Cascadia Times, which he co-founded in 1995. He was previously a staff writer for The Oregonian and for Willamette Week. In 2016 he won the Bruce Baer Award given annually to an Oregon journalist for excellence in investigative journalism and, in 2004, the John B. Oakes Award for the most distinguished environmental journalism in the United States. He is co-author, with Jessica Applegate, of Canopy of Titans: The Life and Times of the Great North American Temperate Rainforest. It was an Oregon Book Award finalist in 2024.
Jessica Applegate is an author, environmentalist, and photojournalist. She is co-author of Canopy of Titans, a 2023 Oregon Book Awards Finalist, and numerous articles about environmental issues as managing editor and photographer for the environmental journal, Cascadia Times. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
