Watersheds And “Culture-Sheds”: Hear about Water Politics | Mission

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Watersheds And “Culture-Sheds“: Developing Reciprocal Bio-Regional Culture from the Bay Area to the Mountains of California.

Find out about unintended consequences, serendipitous connections, and the emergent water-based politics and culture of the 21st century.

Your Eco-Panel:

Join a dynamic panel to discuss the historical and emerging relationships among humans, and between humans and the waterways on which they live.

• Ruth Askevold is a Cartographic Specialist at the San Francisco Estuary Institute, where she works with the Historical Ecology Program.
• Jessie Raeder has her finger in a number of SF Bay watersheds: she puts on a month-long Tuolumne River Paddle to the Sea, helps organize a coalition of river advocates called SalmonAid, and works with the Yuba River Source to Sea project that inspired her unlimited enthusiasm for wild rivers and wild salmon.
• Michael “Med-o” Whitson is a long-time Bay Area culture maker, helping to found 848 Community Space and CounterPULSE.
• Derek Hitchcock is a Berkeley-based ecologist and sixth generation northern Californian who grew up in the watershed of the Yuba River.

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