

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Author Series: The Trees are Speaking with Lynda Mapes
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Enjoy an evening with Lynda V. Mapes, award-winning environmental journalist, and author. This is a FREE event. 

Local conservation groups will be tabling at this event from 6 to 6:30pm. The presentation begins at 6:30pm. 

In “The Trees are Speaking,” Mapes connects the present and future of Pacific Northwest forests to the hard-logged legacy forests of the northeastern United States. With vibrant storytelling supported by science and traditional ecological knowledge, Mapes invites us to understand the world where trees are kin, not commodities. 

Mapes is a journalist, nature writer, and author based in Seattle. She is the author of six books of natural and cultural history of the Pacific Northwest. She has been awarded the Washington State Book Award, the National Outdoor Book Award, and twice been honored with the international Kavli Gold Award for Science Writing by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world’s most prestigious science writing awards. She was in 2025 named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting with a team of journalists at the Seattle Times, where she specialized for 27 years in covering environmental news, nature, and Native cultures and governments. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Chehalis Basin Collaborative for Salmon Habitat.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/centralia/author-series-the-trees-are-speaking-with-lynda-mapes/200029703639847
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Centralia
- **state**: WA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: TransAlta Commons Room 122, Centralia College
- **lat**: 46.76159
- **long**: -122.86899
- **full address**: TransAlta Commons Room 122, Centralia College, 913 Big Hanaford Rd, Centralia, WA 98531, United States

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- **organizer**: Centralia College (https://allevents.in/org/centralia-college/7119328)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** TransAlta Commons Room 122, Centralia College, 913 Big Hanaford Rd, Centralia, WA 98531, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Centralia College
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Author Series: The Trees are Speaking with Lynda Mapes ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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