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the Spring Creek Project Mission:

         The challenge of the Spring Creek Project is to bring together the            practical wisdom of the environmental sciences, the clarity of philosophical analysis, and the creative, expressive power of the written word, to find new ways to understand and re-imagine our relation to the natural world.                      

                       Upcoming Events

Book Launch: 

In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens

7:30 pm, Friday, May 16                                                                           OSU Valley Library Rotunda                                                                     Please join us for readings by Charles Goodrich, Frederick J. Swanson, and Kathleen Dean Moore, Tony Vogt

Most popular accounts of the momentous 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens have focused on the devastation it caused. More recent scientific work on the volcano tells a story of unexpectedly rapid and varied ecological and geological change. In the Blast Zone is the first book to present a cross-pollination of literary and scientific perspectives on the mountain’s history of cataclysm and renewal.

Other IN THE BLAST ZONE events:

4 p.m, Sunday, May 18                                                                               Powells Bookstore, 1005 W. Burnside, Portland                                                 With Ursula LeGuin, Kim Stafford, Charles Goodrich, Frederick J. Swanson, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Tony Vogt

7 p.m, Wednesday, May 21                                                                       University of Oregon Knight Library Browsing Room                                     With Charles Goodrich, Frederick J. Swanson, and Kathleen Dean Moore

 

 

The Trillium Project -- April 20 -- May 18, 2008

We at the Spring Creek Project invite you to participate in the Trillium Project during prime wildflower season -- April 20 to May 18, 2008 -- at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek. We're inviting ideas from people from a wide variety of backgrounds and interests—artists, botanists, writers, biologists, musicians, philosophers, etc.—who might like to visit or stay at the cabin for an afternoon, a day and a night, or several days, to study and write (draw, photograph, compose songs, etc.) about the Shotpouch place itself...  read more>>

News

Spring 2008 writers-in- residence chosen: read more>>

Next Application Deadline:

            May 15, 2008

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In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens edited by Charles Goodrich, Frederick J. Swanson, and Kathleen Dean Moore published by OSU Press. 

     Most of the contributors to this volume camped together on Mount St. Helens for four days in 2005— hiking, learning the ecology, sharing ideas—as part of a Spring Creek-sponsored "foray"....read more >>



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