nature book club

Get together, expand your knowledge of the natural world, meet other folks, and have a good time!
Nature Book Club meets monthly, is free, and open to all.

Nature Book Club is a great way to keep up on your nature learning, meet new people, read new books, and participate in discussion about the ways nature writing shapes our experiences and relationship to the natural world.
New folks are always welcome to join! 

Nature Book Club meets the fourth Wednesday of each month, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Online, contact us for the meeting link

NOTE: NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 2024 WILL BE COMBINED INTO ONE MEETING ON DEC 4

Next Meeting: Wednesday, September 25, 6:00-7:30pm.

​The Genius of Birds
by Jennifer Ackerman

​Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores their newly discovered brilliance and how it came about.

As she travels around the world to the most cutting-edge frontiers of research, Ackerman not only tells the story of the recently uncovered genius of birds but also delves deeply into the latest findings about the bird brain itself that are shifting our view of what it means to be intelligent. At once personal yet scientific, richly informative and beautifully written, The Genius of Birds celebrates the triumphs of these surprising and fiercely intelligent creatures.

Upcoming selections:

January:  American Snakes by Sean Graham
February: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
March: Netting the Sun: A Personal Geography of the Oregon Desert by Melvin Adams
April: What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcomb
May: The Secret World of Weather: How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop by Tristan Gooley
June: The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant
July: This Rough Magic: At Home on the Columbia Slough by Nancy Henry
August: Spell of the Sensuous by David Abrams
September: The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
October: Eat Poop Die: How Animals Make our World by Joe Roman
November: NO MEETING
December 4: NOTE MEETING DATE CHANGE! Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping The Future of our Planet by Ben Goldfarb 
January 2025: Oregon Geology by Elizabeth Orr

Also check out our Tracking Club!