Working Landscapes, Working Waterscapes

A panel discussion will reflect on the history of Drake's Bay oyster farming and the controversy over the continuation of oyster farming within the Pt. Reyes National Seashore, but more importantly use it as a way to think about a larger question: how can we build a consensus, a movement even -- across sectors -- that could change the ways we think about and manage cultural and working landscapes within parks, natural areas, and wildernesses? Is there a fundamental shift in the ways we think about nature, people, ecology, and environmental history coming and how do we conceptualize it and solidify it to become better stewards of our public lands?  The panel will be moderated by award-winning journalist Jon Christensen, currently the Executive Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University with panelists Richard Walker, author of The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area, Amy Meyer, author of New Guardians for the Golden Gate: How America Got a Great National Park, and Kelly Cash, development director of Restore Hetch Hetchy.

RSVP to rsvp@calhist.org or 415.357.1848, ext. 229.