CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY • October 12, 2023
Renowned musicians, authors, poets and tribal elders will come together Sunday in Portland, Maine, to raise awareness about threats to northern Montana’s ancient Yaak Valley and support its designation as the nation’s first climate refuge. The event also will support efforts to protect all the country’s old-growth and mature forests on federal public lands from logging. The event features singer-songwriters Maggie Rogers and Alisa Amador; Halcyon String Quartet; poets Beth Ann Fennelly and Gary Lawless; environmentalists and authors Bill McKibben, Terry Tempest Williams and Rick Bass; Francis Auld and Leslie Caye, spiritual leaders with the Montana band of the Kootenai Tribe. At Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland, Oct. 15, 7 pm.