Posted by proassist on Feb 16, 2024 in News | Comments Off on Newly Listed 2024 Speaking Events
WSU Press has just released the first paperback edition of David Douglas: A Naturalist at Work. This highly illustrated collection of essays describes David Douglas’s time in the Pacific Northwest through period artwork, tribal interactions, archival treasures, herbarium specimens, and tracking the trails and waterways that Douglas traveled.
For more information, click here.
Jack will be making presentations about:
See UPCOMING EVENTS to check out these events plus other hikes and presentations scheduled for 2024 as they become finalized.
Posted by proassist on Jan 10, 2024 in News | Comments Off on New Edition of Sources of the River
A new edition of Sources of the River has just been release by Talon Audio Books.
It is now available on Audible, Libby, or wherever you get your recorded books.
Posted by proassist on Apr 3, 2023 in News | Comments Off on The last scientifically documented sighting of a wild condor in Washington state occurred in 1897. Can they come back?
Jack’s latest article in the Pacific Northwest Inlander discusses the last documented sighting of wild condors in Washington State. Is it possible for them to ever return? What is the current status of the birds, and what future plans exist for them?
The article appears in two parts, both of which are available via the links below.
The last scientifically documented sighting of a wild condor in Washington state occurred in 1897. Can they come back?
The status of condors right now and future plans for the big bird
Posted by proassist on Feb 24, 2023 in News | Comments Off on Jack is Returning to the Sandhill Crane Festival in Othello
On March 25 at 1:45 p.m., Jack will return to the Sandhill Crane Festival in Othello.
His slide presentation on Condors in the Northwest will draw on the condor essay in his book Visible Bones
as well as more recent research that is part of his current writing project.
Posted by proassist on Dec 7, 2022 in News | Comments Off on Jack Returns to Writing for the Pacific Northwest Inlander
After a lengthy break, Jack will be writing occasionally for the Pacific Northwest Inlander again. His first piece is part of an article about Salish language resurgence in the Spokane, Coeur d’Alene, and Kalispel world that includes statements from a handful of language experts plus dynamic cover art by Emma Noyes.
Jack’s piece details the making of David Thompson’s Saleesh-Kullyspel Vocabulary 1810, the first written dictionary of Salish language.
Readers can view the entire article by visiting The Inlander’s link
here.
Posted by proassist on May 31, 2022 in News | Comments Off on Coming Soon: The Many Gardens of John and CARRIE LEIBERG
Saturday, JUNE 11, 2022 at 2:00 p.m.
This event will celebrate the freshly remodeled and re-landscaped Shadle Park branch of the Spokane Public Library
In 1885 Swedish immigrant John Leiberg and his companion Carrie staked out a homestead on the south end of Lake Pend Oreille. Join Jack Nisbet for a slide presentation that follows the Leibergs from their vegetable garden and orchard at the lake through festoons of mosses in the Clark Fork Delta, explosions of spring wildflowers in the shrub-steppe of the Columbia Basin, and old growth forests along the spine of the Rocky Mountains.
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Posted by proassist on May 31, 2022 in News | Comments Off on Book Recommendations
Based on my David Douglas book
The Collector, I have partnered with
shepherd.com to recommend a list of books highlighting the deep relationships that grow between plants and people
Posted by proassist on Sep 6, 2021 in News | Comments Off on New Events!
September 13
6:45 pm
“The Willamette Meteorite”
Puget Lobe Chapter
Ice Age Floods Institute
THIS IS A ZOOM EVENT. FOR MORE INFORMATION,
CLICK HERE.
September 16
“Condors of the Inland Northwest”
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane
6:30 pm
This slide presentation is presented in conjunction with a spectacular exhibit of John James Audubon’s bird and mammal paintings. During the course of the evening, Nisbet will provide context for Audubon’s condor painting, which was based on a bird collected in the Columbia River drainage. Along the way Jack will trace written and oral records of these birds throughout the region over a surprisingly long stretch of time.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION,
CLICK HERE.
September 18
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture
Bird hike in the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge with Jack Nisbet
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.
September 25
Inland Northwest Land Conservancy
Saltese Uplands Hike
Join
Jack Nisbet and the INWLC team for a day of exploration centered around a recent extension to the Saltese Uplands property in the Spokane Valley. FOR MORE INFORMATION,
CLICK HERE.
Posted by proassist on Feb 26, 2021 in News | Comments Off on Yakima Audubon Society talk on condors date change
Sorry to say that Covid has delayed the Yakima Audubon Society talk on condors scheduled for Thursday February 25th.
This event will now take place on Thursday, April 22.
We will put a zoom link up on the web site shortly before the new April date.
Posted by proassist on Feb 8, 2021 in News | Comments Off on Coming Soon: Jack Speaks to the Yakima Audubon Society About Condors
Jack will be speaking to the Yakima Audubon Society about condors on Feb 25th. We will post a link to this event as soon as it arrives.
DATE: Feb 25
TIME: 7:00 pm
CONDORS IN THE GREATER NORTHWEST
Written, oral, and archaeological records describe a rich history of California condors in the Pacific Northwest, including many accounts from east of the Cascades. In this virtual slide show, author Jack Nisbet will revisit the research that he used for his book Visible Bones, then move forward in time to trace what has come to light since as part of the effort to reintroduce these birds into their original range.