2013-2014 Raincoast Speaker Series: At the Leading Edge with Dr Briony Penn

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Thursday, November 21st, 2013
Doors at 7:00 pm, Presentation at 7:30 pm

Please join Dr Briony Penn and the Raincoast Education Society for the second event of the 2013-2014 Raincoast Speaker Series.

Clayoquot Sound has attracted and influenced many of the leading edge western naturalists/scientists/environmentalists from the continent over the last 100 years, e.g., early naturalist/anthropologist Charles Newcombe, conservation biologist Annie Alexander, Ian McTaggart Cowan and Charles Guiget and the provincial museum years, marine biologist Ed Ricketts and Cannery Row, the Clayoquot Sound scientific panel, etc.

Penn explores some of the ideas and people she has encountered in her years as a journalist and biographer of Ian McTaggart Cowan that have built upon Clayoquot Sound's traditional culture of conservation, whether it is by documenting biodiversity, bringing back specimens to educational museums, creating ecological reserves, critiquing forestry, portraying conservation biology in novels or art, promoting wilderness preservation, civil disobedience, advocating alternative landuses to resource extraction from trapping to non-timber forest products to ecotourism, reforming our economic system or enchanting the disenchanted, Clayoquot Sound has seen it all. What has worked and what hasn't and where is the leading edge now?