McCleary Museum & Event Center Lecture: Why Here? Legacies of a Cultural Tsunami
Saturday, March 15, 2025
- Time
- 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
- Venue
- Mccleary Museum And Event Center, Mccleary, WA, 98557
- Price
- By donation
Why Here? Legacies of a Cultural Tsunami a lecture by Stan Graham—Retired US Forest Service & Dave Peter PhD—Retired US Forest Service
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Saturday, March 15th at 2PM join Stan Graham and Dave Peter, PhD as they speak on "Legacies of a Cultural Tsunami". The lecture is by donation and light refreshments will be provided after.
The Olympic Peninsula is generally characterized as a land of forests. But while there are many forests and while forest potential exists nearly everywhere else, what settlers found when they arrived was a richer landscape of forests, open woodlands, savannas and prairies. What was not appreciated was that these openings were the work of native people managing the landscape to better serve their needs. What greeted the settlers' eyes suggested great promise. But the Olympic Peninsula challenged the settlers' toolbox in ways they hadn’t expected and often they were discouraged as their efforts to farm went unrewarded.
We will explore the native landscape that greeted the settlers. Why the forests and prairies were where they were and why most are now gone. And, why farms, towns and managed forests are where they are. How did nature interact with Native management and later with settler management to create their respective landscapes?
The Olympic Peninsula is generally characterized as a land of forests. But while there are many forests and while forest potential exists nearly everywhere else, what settlers found when they arrived was a richer landscape of forests, open woodlands, savannas and prairies. What was not appreciated was that these openings were the work of native people managing the landscape to better serve their needs. What greeted the settlers' eyes suggested great promise. But the Olympic Peninsula challenged the settlers' toolbox in ways they hadn’t expected and often they were discouraged as their efforts to farm went unrewarded.
We will explore the native landscape that greeted the settlers. Why the forests and prairies were where they were and why most are now gone. And, why farms, towns and managed forests are where they are. How did nature interact with Native management and later with settler management to create their respective landscapes?
Venue
Mccleary Museum And Event Center
426 S 3rd St
Mccleary, WA
98557
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