This Week’s Morning Show Features: PEM’s Boreal Forest Exhibit with Curator Jane Winchell
August 26, 2025August 26, 2025
This Week’s Morning Show Features:
PEM’s Boreal Forest Exhibit with
Curator Jane Winchell
The photo above and the one at the end of the Loon are examples of the stunningly beautiful photography you’ll see at PEM’s Boreal Forest Exhibit. This week, I’m talking with Jane Winchell, the Sarah Fraser Robbins Director of Peabody Essex Museum’s (PEM) Dotty Brown Art & Nature Center, about “Knowing Nature: Stories of the Boreal Forest,” now on display through September 27th, 2026.
“Covering 33% of the Earth’s forested area, the boreal forest is the last intact forest in the world. It is critical to the health of our entire planet,” Winchell has said.
The North American boreal forest stretches across a third of the continent, just below the Arctic Circle and is home to 3.7 million people, 85 species of animals, 32,000 species of insects and two billion migratory birds.
Jane will describe the exhibit’s use of “first-person stories, commissioned objects, interactive experiences and exquisite photography and videography” to underscore the importance of biodiversity and the global environmental importance of the forest. She will also discuss themes of climate change, Indigenous perspectives, and the relationship between people and nature.
For more information, visit www.pem.org/exhibitions/knowing-nature-stories-of-the-boreal-forest
Knowing Nature: Stories of the Boreal Forest
Did you know the boreal forest covers 33% of the Earth’s forested area?
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