"Feathered Forest: Aloft with Birds in Ancient Trees" with Marina Richie

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When
Sep 23, 2026 from 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM
Where
Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park
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A Nature of Writing Speaker Series event, hosted in partnership with Third Place Books

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In Feathered Forest, acclaimed nature writer Marina Richie guides us into a vertical world of old-growth forests on both sides of the Cascade Crest through the eyes of the birds that inhabit them—exploring her journey as an environmentalist in her signature verdant prose. Within centuries-old groves that are critical refugia in a time of climate crisis, these winged messengers show us a better way to steward our threatened landscapes. With exquisite prose and meticulous research, Marina Richie interweaves memoir with clear-eyed notes on ecology to create an engaging blend of scientific and soulful observations. Just as a forest transitions upward from understory to midstory to overstory, so too does the trajectory of Richie’s life—from the protective cover of adolescence to the precarious yet light-filled canopy of adulthood. Richie’s love for the wilds unfurls in poetic phrasing, and her call to protect our last old-growth trees is resounding and clear. A narrative of perception change, memoir, and kinship, Feathered Forest is a soaring ode to birds and wild trees.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marina Richie is an award-winning nature writer with a passion for birds and wild places. Her book Halcyon Journey: In Search of the Belted Kingfisher received the 2024 John Burroughs Medal for distinguished natural history writing, a 2022 National Outdoor Book Award, and a Foreword Indies Award. Through prose and poetry, Marina seeks to bridge the divide separating people from nature. Her essays, blogs, and poems appear in popular and literary magazines. Marina has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Montana and an undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Oregon. She lives in Bend, Oregon, with her husband Wes and tends a bird-friendly yard.

ABOUT OUR BOOKSELLER PARTNER
Now celebrating over 25 years in business, Third Place Books is a Pacific Northwest bookselling institution with three locations in the Seattle area, each featuring a partner restaurant and gathering space. Hosting nearly 300 author events a year, Third Place Books is the deliberate and intentional creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them and has proudly supported Puget Sound authors since 1998.