Free Frenkel Webinar Series - Listening to the Land - Register today
David Eckert
South Corvallians –
We need some good news these days and the 2026 Liz & Bob Frenkel Spring Environmental Webinar Series is a great way to get uplifted and learn what local Corvallis people are doing to help us to better listen to the land and know what it can teach us.
The webinars are free, but pre-registration is required. Each of the three webinars in the series has its own separate registration link. Even if you cannot attend a webinar, still pre-register. Those who pre-register will receive a link to the webinar recording within three days following the webinar, even if you didn’t watch it live.
So, register today. You will receive multiple reminders in advance and the Zoom link from the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library which is providing all of the technical support.
And don’t forget to thank our three co-sponsors:
- Marys Peak Group Sierra Club
- Corvallis-Benton County Public Library
- Corvallis Sustainability Coalition
Following are the three webinar descriptions and pre-registration links.
2026 Webinar Series Theme - Listening to the Land
Wednesday, March 18
A Kalapuya Legacy: Oak Savannas and Prairies on OSU Lands
By Dr. Dennis Albert, OSU researcher
Learn how our local Oregon White Oaks and native herbaceous species on OSU lands reveal Kalapuya ancestral culture and help reveal our conditions today. Dr. Albert’s research on OSU lands is “groundbreaking” and will change the way you think while walking through these Oak woodlands and savannas.
Registration Link: cbcpl.net/Frenkel1
Wednesday, April 8
Implications found in Ancient Douglas-fir of the OSU McDonald-Dunn Forest
By Dr. Meg Krawchuck & Charles Drake, OSU Researchers
Learn how our local ancient Douglas-firs help us understand how ancestral Indigenous cultural practices, including fire, reflected and impacted the human experience and why knowledge of such cultural practices matter for current forest management. Douglas-firs represent a different ecosystem and set of human cultural practices than of those represented by the Oaks from the first webinar. Dr. Krawchuk and Charles Drake have done us all a great service by sharing their unique research.
Registration Link: cbcpl.net/Frenkel2
Wednesday, May 13 – 7:00-8:30 pm
Lessons from the Land: Cultivating Abundance through Land-Based Education
By Marta Capriles, Corvallis Waldorf School Agricultural Arts teacher
Learn how a local schoolyard was developed into a dynamic farmscape in which the students tend the land and learn to work with its gifts through an Indigenized curriculum developed at the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde. The students not only tend to the land, but they learn how to efficiently and sustainably utilize and benefit from the gifts of the land they tend. You will wish you had attended this school when you were growing up.
Registration Link: cbcpl.net/Frenkel3
Dave Eckert
Corvallis Sustainability Coalition Water Action Team
www.sustainablecorvallis.org/action-teams/water
dec...@willamettewatershed.com