The Trees Are Speaking
Lynda Mapes Book Event
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
7:00 to 8:30 pm
Graham Visitors Center
FREE TO THE PUBLIC
We are thrilled to welcome Seattle journalist and author Lynda Mapes to the Arboretum for a discussion and slide show about her new book The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests.
Learn about the importance of our old-growth and other natural forests and the existential threats they face.
The event will conclude with a book signing. We’ll have copies of The Trees are Speaking available for purchase in the Arboretum Gift Shop. Arboretum Foundation members receive a 10% discount on all Gift Shop purchases.
Presented by the Arboretum Foundation and the Elisabeth C. Miller Library.
Lynda V. Mapes specializes in coverage of the environment and Indigenous cultures and governments. Over the course of her 27-year career as a reporter at The Seattle Times, she earned numerous awards, including the Kavli Gold Science Journalism Award in 2012 and 2019 from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2025, she and a team of journalists at The Seattle Times were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. Lynda is the author of seven books, including most recently The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests (University of Washington Press, 2025). She is the winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award and the 2021 Washington State Book Award for nonfiction.
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