Join us for the 38th Annual Summer Lecture Series, held on Wednesday nights in July and August at 7 p.m. This free event is held in the Norm Dicks Visitor Center Auditorium. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and attendance is limited to 100. On August 27, Olympia-based freelance journalist and photographer Janine Gates will discuss her forthcoming book about the Nisqually Delta. Janine’s book offers six years of fresh, independent research and interviews, capturing the efforts of environmental activists who fought proposals from the 1940s to the present to industrialize the Nisqually Delta.
While several deltas in western Washington succumbed to industrialization in the early 1900s, the Nisqually Delta has survived decades of persistent threats by railroad companies, ports, counties, municipalities, corporations, and private developers. Janine’s presentation, including a slide show documenting the beauty and history of the delta, will illustrate why the Nisqually Delta still needs to be saved.
Janine Gates is an actively involved grandmother of two and fulltime caregiver for seniors and their families. Janine wrote over 500 articles from 2009 – 2019 for her blog, Little Hollywood, at www.janineslittlehollywood.blogspot.com. Her journalism serves the public interest and features independent research and investigations on land use, the environment, state and local government, business, and area history. She served 10 years as a volunteer with the South Puget Environmental Education Clearinghouse (SPEECH) and four years as board secretary for the Olympia History Society and Bigelow House Museum.