Roger Dorband’s Eco Imagination

Forest Visions

art science action eco-education

Roundtables, Art Exhibit, Poetry, Speaker Series, Film Screening  to spark community conversations, education, and action toward the transformation from an industrial model of accelerated clear cutting by wall street driven timber corporations to a new vision—the Forest’s Vision — based on the intelligence of trees, community survival, innovative design, and love for the forests who breathe for us.

Created in collaboration with photographer and writer Roger Dorband (L), Clatsop Community College Librarian and musician, Dan McClure (R)

Read about the artists and vision of this project

Eco Education
roundtables to imagine and design an interdisciplinary model, a protective and prosperous regional vision, grounded by art, science, storytelling, and deep history.

Poetry
Oregon Poet Laureate Kim Stafford offered students and community members storytelling skills and intimacy with the natural world through ceremony, poetry, performance, and writing workshops

Speaker Series
featured activists in sustainable forestry management, water and salmon protection, and new economic models in alignment with natural systems.

Art Exhibit
at Royal Nebeker Art Gallery, curated by Bonnie Laing-Malcomson, featured the art of Robert Adams, Kim Osgood, Laura Ross Paul, Michael Brophy, Lee Imonen, Rita Robillard

Now & On-going
3 part series by Roger Dorband, 2024
Part 1  Oregon Forests/Past, Present, Future
Part 2  Money Don’t’ Grow
Part 3 Green No More

North Coast Communities for Watershed Protectors  
Listen to the Astoria kickoff speech that frames the issues eloquently by Anna Kaufman. 5-minute read     

Hear the Forest Poets read at the NCCWP event

Roger’s final article, Salmon, Forests, and the Circle of Life, p. 4, is about the interconnectedness of life, how salmon are a “keystone species; one whose presence or absence has an impact on an entire ecosystem.” 

Comrade and fierce leader in the struggle to save our forests, Roger Dorband, joined the Ancestors on October 10th, 2025. A photographer, writer, sculptor, and activist, who aimed his words and lens at the Oregon forests—their splendor, support systems, management systems set up to maximize profit, the critical reality of losing these great beings, of losing ourselves.

Our two-year project, Forest Visions, planted seeds, and Roger continued to write Forest Visions, an essential collection of essays that illuminate the many dimensions of our relationships with the forests, published by Hipfish Monthly (p 4 to read Dinah Urell’s tribute).

photo by Roger Dorband