Natural History Pub: The Environmental History of the Palouse Prairie

When:
November 10, 2015 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
2015-11-10T17:30:00-08:00
2015-11-10T20:30:00-08:00
Where:
McMenamins Old St. Francis School
700 Northwest Bond Street
Bend, OR 97701
USA
Cost:
Free
Contact:
High Desert Museum
5413824754

Environmental Historian, Professor and Author Andrew Duffin traces the transformation of the Palouse region of Washington and Idaho from land once thought unusable and unproductive, to a wealth-generating agricultural paradise. Duffin, author of Plowed Under: Agriculture and Environment in the Palouse, explores how this agricultural progress lead to the environmental challenges we see today.

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