100 Brown Farm Road NW Olympia
38th Annual Summer Lecture Series in July and August
2025 brings an exciting lineup of great guest speakers for the 38th Annual Summer Lecture Series! This event brings high quality speakers on a variety of natural and cultural history topics to the Norm Dicks Visitor Center Auditorium, Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, on Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m.
Free tickets are available at the door starting at 6:30, with a limit of 100 people in the audience.
At this time the event is in-person only. Combine your visit with a stroll on the refuge trails. Entry to the refuge is free for event attendees.
July 9, Steve Albrecht, Leaving No Trace
July 16, Dr. Greg Hood, Beavers in Tidal Marshes
July 23, Dave Slater, Fascinating Lives of Five Washington Shorebirds
July 30, Jennifer Hahn, Foraging as a Passport to Place
Aug. 6, Deschutes Estuary Restoration Project
Aug. 13, Dr. Jane Mangold, Invasive Plants in the West
Aug. 20, Marco Pinchot, Running the Nisqually Community Forest
Aug. 27, Janine Gates, Saving the Nisqually Delta: Lessons in Citizen Activism
