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naturalist’s calendar Knot to be missed What ails the whales? The Oregon Chapter of the American Cetacean Society will welcome Colleen Weiler of Whale & Dolphin Conservation as its guest speaker this Saturday, Sept. 21. Weiler is the Whale & Dolphin Conservation Fellow at the Rekos Fellowship for Orca Conservation and also serves on Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s Orca Recovery Task Force. She will be discussing the status of the Southern Resident Killer Whales as well as the progress of the Governor’s Task Force and implementation plan. Year two of the task force ends in October and its final report is due in November. There is still time for public comment on its final recommendations. The presentation, which is free and open to all, will run from 10 am to noon at Newport Public Library, 35 NW Nye Street. Upcoming speaker series events include “Tracking Humpback Whales in Oregon and Washington” on Saturday, Oct. 19; and “Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia” on Saturday, Nov. 16. For more information, contact Joy Primrose, ACS Oregon Chapter President at marine_lover4ever@yahoo. com or 541-517-8754. Wander in wonder, every Wednesday Manzanita’s Hoffman Center for the Arts is opening up its grounds for a series of Wonder Garden Walk & Talk Wednesdays led by plant curator Ketzel Levine. Running from 11 am to noon every Wednesday, the class is a chance for all manner of gardeners to discover unusual and underused plants that thrive on the North Coast. Each class will highlight different plants in the Wonder Garden. While class size will be limited, participants can sign up for as many classes as they like. The Wonder Garden is the jewel in the crown of the Hoffman Center’s Horticultural Arts program, launched in the fall of 2018. The young botanic garden is a living laboratory of plants from places as diverse as South Africa, Turkey, Chile and, of course, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Levine studied at the George 22 • oregoncoastTODAY.com • facebook.com/oregoncoasttoday • September 20, 2019 Washington University School of Landscape Design. She began her own business, Hortus Landscaping, in 1991, then later began a career writing about horticulture, botanizing and lecturing for garden clubs, botanic gardens and arboretums. After moving to Portland in 1996, she became the northwest regional correspondent for Horticulture Magazine and a contributing editor for The Oregonian. Her newspaper plant profiles were published in the 2000 book, “Plant This!” Levine’s own garden has been featured in several magazines, including Portland Monthly. A profile of Levine and her garden was published in the February 2011 issue of Sunset Magazine. Registration for Wonder Garden Walk & Talk Wednesdays is $10 per person. For details, go to hoffmanarts.org/events/ wonder-garden-walk-talk-wednesdays. Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center will welcome artist Janet Essley to the coast this Sunday, Sept. 22, for a presentation on one of the furthest migrating species in the world, the red knot sandpiper. The presentation, “Tidal Flats and Dark Chocolate: A shorebird’s Perspective,” is organized in conjunction with The Wetlands Conservancy’s ongoing Ode to the Tides art exhibit. Essley will take listeners on a journey around the world to the tidal flats that red knots visit during their annual migrations. Through cultural cartography, Essley uses artwork to guide viewers through efforts to preserve the habitat upon which this impressive shorebird depends. Essley is a painter, muralist and teaching artist with more than 20 years’ experience creating collaborative murals with kids and adults. Her personal work is often focused on environmental issues, with “The Cultural Cartography of Red Knots” being her most recent project. Before settling into a career in art, she worked in reforestation in Pacific Northwest forests for 15 years. She has had the opportunity to volunteer on a variety of wildlife studies that included Brant Geese and California Gray whales in Baja, California and Orcas in British Columbia. It was in the marine estuaries of Baja that her interest in birds began. She and her husband now live in White Salmon, Washington. Sunday’s reception will run from 2 to 4 pm at 333 SE Bay Blvd, featuring an artists’ talk from 2:30 to 3:30 pm.
