Fishtrap Lecture Series
Fishtrap has long been known for its ability to connect with community through engaging in meaningful discussion. We are planning more exciting lectures for the fall of 2012 so check these pages again for updates.
Past Lectures:
Thursday, April 19 - 7:00 PM Hurricane Creek Grange Hall
Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness - a lecture by Lisa Hamilton
Hamilton's work has taken her from castration time on a Wyoming sheep ranch to a meeting of radical plant breeders in Iowa; from dairy farms in the highlands of Bavaria to sacred rice paddies along the coast of Japan. Her book Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness offers an expert’s perspective on how innovative agricultural methods can help families hold on to rural lifestyles and landscapes.
This lecture is co-sponsored with the Wallowa Land Trust, Wallowa Resources and the Wallowa County Chapter of the American Association of University Women.
Tickets are $5 per lecture,
Students $3, Full series $20.
Children 10 and younger get in free.
Tickets available at: Bookloft, Grain Growers, Sheep Shed, Blonde Strawberry and Lostine Tavern
A portion of the proceeds go to support the Hurricane Creek Grange.
Wednesday, March 14 - 7:00 PM Hurricane Creek Grange Hall
Keeping Traditions Alive: The Next Generation on Working Land - panel discussion moderated by Todd Nash of Marr Flat Cattle Co.
A panel discussion on the future of our working lands, asking how the children of present day ranchers, farmers, and foresters can own land and make a living. The panel will explore innovative solutions that have been successfully implemented in the Wallowa Valley. Panelists will include young people who are inheriting and managing family land in Wallowa County.
Thursday, February 16 - 7:00 PM
Hurricane Creek Grange Hall
Creative Markets for Traditional Products - panel discussion moderated by Liza Jane Nichols of 6 Ranch
A discussion on how local businesspeople, especially farmers and ranchers, have found new markets in response to wider ecological, economic, and social changes. A primary theme will be unique ways of adding value to finished products. Panelists are: Jill McClaran of the McClaran Ranch, Jim Zacharias of JayZee Lumber, and Larry Davis & Nicole Bellows of Northwest Goat Grazers/Happy Chick Farms.
Alternative Economies: Reaching a Broader Community
A panel discussion moderated by Nancy Knoble
Thursday, November 17 - 7:00 PM
Hurricane Creek Grange Hall
This panel discussion will focus on unique ways in which valley residents have created business around tourism or by creating unique items here that can be sold elsewhere. A primary tenant of Spencer Beebe's ideology is the concept of differentiation: that we diversify to find livelihoods suited to the place in which we live. We want to create a discussion with artists, innkeepers, outdoor adventure business owners, and other constituents, identifying what they have done to adapt to changing economic and social realities.
Spencer Beebe - Cache: Creating Natural Economies
Monday, Oct. 17, 7:00 PM
Spencer Beebe will come to Wallowa County to kick-off the Fishtrap 2011-2012 lecture series and discuss the connections that exist between natural resources and the economies that support our communities. His recently published book Cache: Creating Natural Economies delves into what it might take to augment economies to make resource-based livings an economically viable reality. Tickets are $5 available at the door, with a discounted student rate of $3. Cost is $20 for the entire 5-part series. This event will be held at the Hurricane Creek Grange, and is co-sponsored with the Wallowa Land Trust and Wallowa Resources. A large portion of the profits go to support the Hurricane Creek Grange. For more information please email ben@fishtrap.org. We hope to see you there!
Fishtrap Lecture Archives
Listen to Wallowa County resident Jack McClaran talk on World War II and the Liberation of Buchenwald (Fishtrap Lecture, April 14, 2009-Odd Fellows Hall, Enterprise, OR.)