Join the Eye On Nature family for a fun online evening supporting environmental education! The Nisqually River Foundation, Nisqually Reach Nature Center, Friends of the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge Complex, and Chehalis Basin Education Consortium bring hundreds of students to the Refuge each year on free field trips where they experience powerful encounters with birds, wildlife, and plants. Your support at this event will help us ensure that these opportunities are still there for students after the COVID crisis has passed. 

Tickets:

Make a donation ($10 suggested per ticket) to receive your Zoom invitation to the event! https://bit.ly/3d6RmKz

Event Details: 

• Featured Speaker: Jeff Antonelis-Lapp, author of Tahoma and Its People
• Silent auction featuring handmade items from the Woodturners of Olympia and other local donors
• Nature ID Quizzes and Door Prizes

Support our local business partner Octapas Cafe:

Eye On Nature has been proud to receive support from Octapas Cafe as the host of our fundraiser in years past. With the COVID crisis hitting restaurants hard, we’re encouraging this year’s attendees in the Olympia area to order some delicious take-out from Octapas and bring it home to enjoy during the fundraiser!

Speaker Bio:

After graduating from college, Jeff Antonelis-Lapp worked two summers at Mount Rainier National Park, igniting a connection to the mountain that endures today. He began writing Tahoma and Its People after being unable to find a current natural history for a course he planned to teach at The Evergreen State College in Olympia. At Evergreen, he taught natural history, environmental education, and Native American Studies until retiring in 2015 as Emeritus Faculty. Jeff has summited the mountain, hiked all of its mapped trails, and completed the 93-mile Wonderland Trail five times. He conducted over 250 days of fieldwork for the book, many of them in the company of park archaeologists, biologists, and geologists. This spring, Washington State University Press published Tahoma and Its People, his natural history of Mount Rainier National Park.