Join us for Nature Night on Oct. 13th for a chat with author Marina Richie! by Marina Richie Luminous.Bill McKibben, author ofHere Comes the SunAcclaimed nature writer Marina Richie guides us into a vertical world of old-growth forests through the eyes of the birds that inhabit themexploring her journey as an environmentalist in her signature verdant prose.With exquisite prose and meticulous research, Marina Richie interweaves memoir with clear-eyed notes on ecology to create an engaging blend of scientific and soulful observations.InFeathered Forest, birds are our guides to a vertical world of ancient trees that spans both sides of the Cascade Mountains. Within centuries-old groves that are critical refugia in a time of climate crisis, these winged messengers show us a better way to steward our threatened landscapes. Just as a forest transitions upward from understory to midstory to overstory, so too does the trajectory of Richies lifefrom the protective cover of adolescence to the precarious yet light-filled canopy of adulthood.Richies love for the wilds unfurls in poetic phrasing, and her call to protect our last old-growth trees is resounding and clear.A narrative of perception change, memoir, and kinship,Feathered Forestis a soaring ode to birds and wild trees.