Events

October 2026

Sunday, October 18, 2026. Birds and words on Sonoma Mountain. 8:30 to 11 a.m.

Join me for a morning walk on beautiful Oona-pa’is (Sonoma Mountain).

We’ll look and listen for avian arrivals (like the Townsend’s warbler, below). We’ll keep a list to submit to eBird, adding our group sightings to databases used by scientists who research the mysteries of migrations. We’ll also explore new and enduring writing about the critical nature of migrants in local ecosystems and communities.

More info and sign up here.

Wednesday, October 14, 2026. Wisdom of the Watershed. 8:00 a.m. to noon.

I’m honored to present with Moira Magneson, Poet Laureate of El Dorado County, CA, on the “Wisdom of Watersheds.”

With other poets who write about rivers and the wild, I’ll be a guest speaker at the county’s Mountainside Middle College High School in an exploration of the Upper American and Cosumnes River watersheds.

Listen to my August 2026 podcast with Moira Magneson on Reading Water with Becca Lawton.