“Unprecedented Seasons”
Webinar Series

In keeping with our mission to inform the present by drawing from the past, FHS launched a virtual lecture series Unprecedented Seasons, hosted by FHS historian Jamie Lewis. Presenters explored the biggest topics of 2020 and 2021—racial inequality and social justice, social isolation/distancing, and climate change—often using the lens of environmental history, biography and memoir to do so. Topics have included wilderness and the COVID-19 pandemic, Henry David Thoreau and social justice, the U.S. Forest Service and the civil rights movement era, and the life and career of U.S. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall. Videos of all presentations are available on the FHS YouTube Channel or the FHS Vimeo Channel.

Funding for this series is provided by the Lynn W. Day Endowment.

The re-created cabin of Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond.
The re-created cabin of Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond.

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Conversations in Forest History

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