Seminar: Water Across the Columbia Plateau

About the event

Drawing on early journals, letters, tribal oral accounts, and period artwork, this presentation attempts to visualize riparian and wetland habitats in eastern Washington around the period of contact. Special attention will be paid to the relationship of people and water in a dry landscape.

Jack Nisbet is a Spokane-based author who has written award-winning biographies of fur agent David Thompson and naturalist David Douglas, as well as several collections of essays about the human and natural history of the greater Northwest