CORVALLIS, Ore. - Master naturalist and author Robert Michael Pyle will be the featured guest at the Campus Creature Census Celebration, which will be held Thursday, May 23, at 7 p.m. in the International Living and Learning Center at Oregon State University.

The center is located at 1701 S.W. Western Blvd. in Corvallis.

Winning artwork and photography will be on display, and prose and poetry winners will share their entries at the event, which is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by OSU's Spring Creek Project, the Campus Creature Census is an ongoing invitation to engage with all non-human creatures. According to Charles Goodrich, director of Spring Creek, the goal of the event is to create a catalog of person-to-person encounters with all the flora and fauna on campus, in prose or poetry, visual art or photography, or field guide-type entry.

Pyle is one of the Pacific Northwest's premier lepidopterists and the author of award-winning books informed by his engagement with nature. His books include "Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land," "Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide," and his latest, "The Tangled Bank."

For more information, go to http://springcreek.oregonstate.edu/

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Charles Goodrich, 541-737-6198

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