Listening to Ash: An Audio Documentary About Oregon’s Disappearing Forests

Spring Creek Project Presents: Listening to Ash: An Audio Documentary About Oregon’s Disappearing Forests​

Jaclyn Moyer and Liza Yeager, recipients of the 2024-25 Public Humanities Collaboratory Fellowship on Watersheds, worked together to create Ghost Forests, a kaleidoscopic audio documentary about Oregon’s disappearing ash forests.​

Moyer, a writer based in Corvallis, has been reporting on Oregon ash forests since the arrival of the invasive emerald ash borer in 2022. Yeager is an audio documentarian from Oregon and the co-founder of the award-winning audio magazine Signal Hill, named one of the best podcasts of 2025 by The New Yorker, The Atlantic and the BBC. Moyer and Yeager will share what they’ve learned about ash forests, sound and making an audio documentary that features characters and scenes from the Willamette Valley and beyond.​

Jaclyn Moyer is an author and journalist whose book On Gold Hill won the 2025 Oregon Book Award. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, High Country News, Salon, Guernica, Orion, Ninth Letter and other publications. ​

Liza Yeager is a documentary radio producer, writer and editor. In addition to her work on Signal Hill, she has worked for Invisibilia, Radiolab, Planet Money, New York Magazine, The Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Public Library, Marfa Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting and The Dig, among many other institutions and projects.

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This event is presented in collaboration with Signal Hill. Signal Hill is an audio magazine that publishes audio documentaries of all kinds: reporting, essays, shorts, profiles, dispatches, reviews, and other things we haven't named yet.

Bar in Ray Theater opens at 5 p.m.

Join us for a glass of wine or beer before the event. Beer, wine and snacks are available for purchase at our in-venue bar, beginning at 5 p.m.