Sechelt Library: Author Talk with Laurel Dykstra

Author and naturalist-priest, Laurel Dykstra, documents a year of spiritual encounters with large gatherings of wild creatures in the lower Fraser watershed in their book Wildlife Congregations. These local low-tech adventures with a run of spawning salmon, a siege of nesting herons, a colony of bats in a heritage house, a gaggle of geese, a murder of crows, 1000 sea lions with bad breath and more are an antidote to interspecies loneliness in this age of extinction. A moving testament to both the fragility and resilience of a bioregion impacted by our current climate crisis, the book offers entry points for all kinds of readers.