2026 Webinar Series Theme - Listening to the Land
All webinars are 7:00pm -8:30pm PDT

Wednesday, March 18 - A Kalapuya Legacy: Oak Savannas and Prairies on OSU Lands 
By Dr. Dennis Albert, OSU researcher 
Learn how our local Oregon White Oaks and native herbaceous species on OSU lands reveal Kalapuya ancestral culture and help reveal our conditions today. Dr. Albert’s research on OSU lands is “groundbreaking” and will change the way you think while walking through these Oak woodlands and savannas. 
Registration Link: cbcpl.net/Frenkel1

Wednesday, April 8 - Implications found in Ancient Douglas-fir of the OSU McDonald-Dunn Forest
By Dr. Meg Krawchuck & 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 knowledge of such cultural practices matter for current forest management. Douglas-firs represent a different ecosystem and set of human cultural practices than of those represented by the Oaks from the first webinar. Dr. Krawchuk and Charles Drake have done us all a great service by sharing their unique research. 
Registration Link: cbcpl.net/Frenkel2

Wednesday, May 13 – Lessons from the Land: Cultivating Abundance through Land-Based Education 
By Marta Capriles, Corvallis Waldorf School Agricultural Arts teacher 
Learn how a local 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 developed at the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde. The students not only tend to the land, but they learn how to efficiently and sustainably utilize and benefit from the gifts of the land they tend. You will wish you had attended this school when you were growing up. 
Registration Link: cbcpl.net/Frenkel3