The Natural Histories Project

Posted 4 October 2011 by Sara in Announcements, Multimedia, Photography

In June the Natural History Initiative held a fourth and final synthesis workshop at North Cascades Environmental Learning Center. Throughout this year we documented the first three of these workshops (focused on natural history and society, education and research), recording conversations between pairs of participants and combining them with intimate portraits. The results are featured as a series of broadsides and an interactive website.

After the last workshop we added more than 30 new conversations to the website, bringing the grand total up to 99. But that’s not all that’s new. Originally called From Decline to Rebirth, the project has a brand-new name: The Natural Histories Project. And there is now a short video to introduce it.

With all of this new stuff, the Natural History Network decided it was time for a website that would help the organization to maximize the impact of the workshops and this project. So we worked with our good friend and frequent collaborator Darin Reid to build them one.

“It’s an incredibly exciting time to be a naturalist,” says the Network’s vice-president Josh Tewksbury, “perhaps the most exciting time to be a naturalist that has ever existed on this planet.” We hope you will watch our new video to find out why, join the Network and (most importantly) get out to practice your own natural histories!