[Fwd: [ISEE-L] Invitation: Salmon Nation Environmental Ethicists]

[Jeri Pollock <jpollock@olmrio.org>]

Invitation to Environmental Philosophers of the Salmon Nation:

We (Kathleen Dean Moore-Oregon State U., Michael Nelson-U. of Idaho, and
Andrew Light-U. of Washington) have hatched a plan to gather the
environmental ethicists and philosophers in the bioregion we call
the 'Salmon Nation’: from the Yukon in the north to the Sacramento in the
south and as far east as salmon swim (so Idaho and part of Montana).  Our
plan is to meet for a weekend field symposium in the ancient forest of the
H.J. Andrews Research Forest in the Oregon Cascades next September -- not
for the usual papers and disputes, but to think hard and cooperatively
about what is our work in a 'wounded world,' to build our courage and
moral resolve, to try to find our way toward a new, engaged work. The
questions are straight-forward: What does the world need from us as
philosophers?  How can we provide it?

Oregon State’s Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written
Word, which Kathy directs, and the USDA Forest Service, can provide
funding to cover lodging and food, and can do the organizing (buy the
wine, build the campfires, lead the hikes, begin the discussions, hoot in
the spotted owls).  We're especially interested in finding environmental
ethicists who may not be in standard academic positions--tribal leaders,
scholars in science or 'natural resource' departments, theorists in the
NGOs.

We believe that in dangerous times, philosophers have to step forward, and
maybe this can be a small step.  We would even humbly encourage other
environmental philosophers in other bioregions to consider hosting similar
gatherings; many small steps might add up to a big leap.

So, if you are an environmental philosopher of the Salmon Nation, or if
you know someone we should add to our mailing list, please email names to
Charles Goodrich at the Spring Creek Project at
charles.goodrich@oregonstate.edu

See you in the Cascades in September,

Michael Nelson
University of Idaho