Oregon Humanities presents a talk on May 22 featuring Bobby Fossek, Erica Berry and Wendy Bingham.

PENDLETON — On May 22, Oregon Humanities will present an onstage conversation with Bobby Fossek, Erica Berry and Wendy Bingham about living in community with animals and plants.

Some animals and plants are welcomed by people, and others we reject or try to eradicate.

How do we decide which living things belong, and what do these decisions show about our place on the land?

This event will take place at Pendleton Center for the Arts, 214 N. Main St., starting at 7 p.m.

This is a free, all-ages event. To register, visit oregonhumanities.org.

Fossek is a leader of Naknuwithlama Tíichamna (Caretakers of the Land) in Cove. Caretakers of the Land aims to steward and strengthen the symbiotic life ways of the Columbia River Basin and the Blue Mountain bioregion through seasonal round immersion camps, cultural revitalization projects, ecosystem restoration and regenerative life skills education.

Berry is a writer from Portland. Her nonfiction debut, “Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear,” was published in spring 2023 by Flatiron/Macmillan. It is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and a semifinalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award.

Her essays, which are often about the intersection of emotion and the natural environment, appear in the New York Times, Orion, Outside Magazine and other publications.

Bingham is a cattle rancher from North Powder.

She discovered her passion for horses and cattle as a child while helping out with her family’s herd. In 2002, Wendy and her husband, Jake, started Bingham Beef, a family-owned and operated cattle ranch.

She said food is an important part of life and takes pleasure in providing beef that has been pasture-raised with care.

Consider This

This live, onstage conversation is part of Oregon Humanities’ 2023–24 Consider This series “Fear and Belonging.”

The series is made possible by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the United We Stand: Connecting Through Culture initiative, as well as support from the Oregon Cultural Trust, the Susan Hammer Fund of Oregon Community Foundation, The Standard, Tonkon Torp LLP and the City of Portland’s We Are Better Together program.

Oregon Humanities connects people and communities through conversation, storytelling and participatory programs to inspire understanding and collaborative change. More information can be found at oregonhumanities.org.