Jeff Antonelis-Lapp (TESC): “A Virtual Field Trip in the Nisqually River Watershed”

https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/85706941218

       Jeff Antonelis-Lapp taught writing and Native American Studies on western Washington Indian reservations for The Evergreen State College for 10 years before teaching environmental education, natural history, and writing on campus until 2015. Prior to that, he held several positions in adult and continuing education for the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, and was a classroom teacher. He holds an M.Ed. in science education from the University of Washington. Jeff is the author of Tahoma and Its People, a natural history of Mount Rainier National Park, which was published by Washington State University Press in 2020. Jeff’s talk, A Virtual Field Trip in the Nisqually Watershed, begins with the original inhabitants, the Squalli-Absch, “The People of the River, the People of the Grass.” We then travel the length of the watershed from the Nisqually Glacier’s origin at the summit of Mount Rainier, continuing as the Nisqually River to its runout into Puget Sound at Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge. The talk focuses on some of the watershed’s 78 river miles of natural history stories and some of its groundbreaking restoration projects. Prof. Antonelis-Lapp is hosted by the Evergreen class “Reimagining Community Safety” (Faculty: Eirik Steinhoff)