Consider This with Chuck Sams

Join us at the Pendleton Center for the Arts on Wednesday, April 9, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. for an onstage conversation about the relationship between people and public lands with Chuck Sams, former director of the National Parks Service.Charles F. “Chuck” Sams III is Cayuse and Walla Walla and an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Northeast Oregon, where he grew up. He also has blood ties to the Cocopah Tribe and Yankton Sioux of Fort Peck.

In conversation with Adam Davis, Sams will explore how public interest informs public policy. How does traditional ecological knowledge factor into federal land management? How can we balance differing perspectives when it comes to highly contested issues like climate change and water rights? How do our relationships with the land impact the laws that govern it?

To purchase tickets ($15 each) or request no-cost tickets, please use this form  Can’t make it to Pendleton? Tune in from home! The conversation will be broadcast live, for free, on our YouTube channel.