Speaker Profile

Michelle Nijhuis

Journalist and author, High Country News

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VIRTUAL APPEARANCE

Michelle Nijhuis is the author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction, a history of the modern conservation movement. A project editor at The Atlantic, she is also a longtime contributing editor of High Country News and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. After 15 years off the electrical grid in rural Colorado, she and her family now live in White Salmon, Washington.

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Scheduled Appearances

Our Biodiversity Crisis

Crosscut Festival 2023
Thu May 4, 2023 | 2:00pm

Last summer, 60 experts who co-authored a study published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment said that for the long-term habitation of the planet, biodiversity loss was equally as critical than the challenge of climate change. America’s wildlife is in crisis - one we can reverse, though, if we look to solutions within reach rather than those that are far off. 

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Featuring: Bruce A. Stein, Paula Swedeen , Michelle Nijhuis

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About the Festival

The Cascade PBS Ideas Festival brings together journalists, newsmakers, and innovators from around the country to talk about the issues that are animating our cultural conversations. The festival includes live recordings of television and podcasts from The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Pushkin, NPR and PBS; as well as community meetups, meet-and-greets, food trucks, DJs, and more.

The Cascade PBS Ideas Festival will take place May 4, 2024, at the Amazon Meeting Center, 2031 Seventh Ave. Seattle, WA 98121.

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