Washington Ornithological Society: 2008 WOS Conference Speakers

Conference Speakers

Mike Denny

Local expert birder and naturalist Mike Denny leads off Friday evening with a presentation about Walla Walla-area birds. His talk will be at the Whitman College campus. The talk begins at 7:00 PM.

Jack Nisbet

Saturday evening’s banquet speaker will be Pacific Northwest author Jack Nisbet, speaking on one of his many areas of expertise.  His program will follow the banquet meal, but Jack will not put you to sleep! Jack is a teacher and writer who explores human and natural history in the greater Northwest.

In 1994, Nisbet published Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson across Western North America, which received the Murray Morgan Prize. Since then, he has written Purple Flat Top; Singing Grass, Burning Sage; Visible Bones; and The Mapmakers Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau. Visible Bones won a Washington State Library Award, and the American Library Association named The Mapmaker’s Eye as one of the year’s “Best of the Best” University Press publications of 2005.

Nisbet is currently working on an exhibit of Plateau artifacts at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, and a book about botanist David Douglas’s interactions with Pacific Northwest tribes. He lives with his wife and two children in Spokane.

Washington Ornithological Society. PO Box 31783. Seattle WA. 98103-1783.

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