Braided River Event: Orca: In Dialogue with Lynda Mapes of the Seattle Times

This event is being hosted by Braided River, the conservation imprint of Mountaineers Books. Braided River utilizes powerful visual storytelling, and strong partnerships with photographers, authors, and grassroots groups, to support critical conservation issues on a national scale.

THE TIME IS NOW if we want to save the endangered southern resident orca whales. Join Seattle Times Journalist Lynda Mapes August 13th, at 6pm PST to learn about the southern resident orca whales that are a signature of our region. Lynda will discuss the status of the Southern residents, including the newly discovered pregnancy of Tahlequah (J35), and share about what's its like covering these whales and their struggle for survival, which Lynda reported on in the award-winning Seattle Times “Hostile Waters” series.

The event will also include a dialogue with Helen Cherullo, Executive Director of Braided River, the publisher of Lynda’s forthcoming book ORCA: Shared Waters, Shared Home, about how multimedia conservation storytelling can be leveraged to build a movement to protect and recover the Salish Sea and the orca and salmon who call this place home.

More about ORCA: Shared Water, Shared Home
ORCA is an important new book project coming out Spring 2021 about our Puget Sound region, with meaning and implications that will resonate around the globe. Brought to life by the enduring partnership of two local and independent media—The Seattle Times and Mountaineers Books and its conservation arm Braided River— and written by award-winning environmental reporter Lynda Mapes, with photos by Times photographer Steve Ringman. This book will be the foundation for an ambitious Braided River outreach campaign, with live multimedia events, expanded programming and community collaborations.

Help bring this book to life and get your name or the name of a loved one in the book by visiting https://www.braidedriver.org/orca.