BELLEVUE, Wash — Inside Bellevue Botanical Garden, a living museum, you’ll find a memorial to give birds that have all been driven to extinction in modern times.
Portland-based sculptor Todd McGrain has dedicated the past 10 years to The Lost Bird Project, as a warning call to the rest of us.
“As most people know by now, we’re in the midst of a real extinction crisis,” he said in a recent interview. “And it’s my belief as a sculptor the best thing I can is to create memorials to the birds we lost.”…