February Program Night with Jeff Antonelis-Lapp

Tahoma and Its People:  A Natural History of Mount Rainier National Park

Please join us for our February program night with Jeff Antonelis-Lapp, where he will discuss his book, Tahoma and Its People:  A Natural History of Mount Rainier National Park.  Jeff explores geologic processes, plant and animal communities, weather and climate influences, and what linked the iconic mountain with the people who traveled to it.  

Jeff began writing Tahoma and Its People after being unable to find a current natural history book for a course he planned to teach at The Evergreen State College in Olympia. In this book he conducted over 250 days of fieldwork, many of them in the company of park archaeologists, biologists, and geologists.  He intersperses his own direct observation and study of organisms, as well as personal interactions with other experts. Topics include geology, archaeology, indigenous villages and use of resources, climate and glacier studies, alpine and forest ecology, rivers, watershed dynamics, keystone species, threatened wildlife, geological hazards, and current resource management.

Join Jeff Antonelis-Lapp, Emeritus Faculty at The Evergreen State College, for Tahoma’s Biggest Stories, an image-rich book talk from Tahoma and Its People, his natural history of Mount Rainier National Park, published this spring by Washington State University Press. Tahoma and Its People was recently selected as a finalist in the Banff Mountain Book Competition. To learn more about Jeff and this book, please visit:  https://jeffantonelis-lapp.com/.