Forest Under Story

Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest

Nathaniel Brodie, Charles Goodrich, Frederick J. Swanson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2018
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-74366-0 (ISBN)

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Two kinds of long-term research are taking place at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, a renowned research facility in the temperate rain forest of the Oregon Cascades. Here, scientists investigate the ecosystem’s trees, wildlife, water, and nutrients with an eye toward understanding change over varying timescales up to two hundred years or more. And writers from both literary and scientific backgrounds spend time in the forest investigating the ecological and human complexities of this remarkable and deeply studied place.

This anthology—which includes work by some of the nation’s most accomplished writers, including Sandra Alcosser, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Jane Hirshfield, Linda Hogan, Freeman House, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Kathleen Dean Moore, Robert Michael Pyle, Pattiann Rogers, and Scott Russell Sanders—grows out of the work of the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program and showcases the insights of the program’s thoughtful and important encounters among writers, scientists, and place. These vivid essays, poems, and field notes convey a landscape of moss-draped trees, patchwork clear-cuts, stream-swept gravel bars, and hillsides scoured by fire, and also bring forward the ambiguities and paradoxes of conflicting human values and their implications for the ecosystem.

Forest Under Story offers an illuminating and multifaceted way of understanding the ecology and significance of old-growth forests, and points the way toward a new kind of collaboration between the sciences and the humanities to better know and learn from special places.

Nathaniel Brodie is a freelance writer; Charles Goodrich is a poet and director of the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word at Oregon State University; and Frederick J. Swanson is research geologist emeritus, Pacific Northwest Research Station, U.S. Forest Service.

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Charles Goodrich | Entries into the Forest

Part One | Research and Revelation

1. The Long Haul / Robert Michael Pyle

2. The Web / Alison Hawthorne Deming

3. Scope: Ten Small Essays / John R. Campbell

4. Ground Work: Natural History of the Andrews Forest Landscape

5. Threads / Vicki Graham

6. Interview with a Watershed / Robin Wall Kimmerer

7. One-Day Field Count / Michael G. Smith

8. Specimens Collected at the Clear-Cut / Alison Hawthorne Deming

9. Forest Duff: A Poetic Sampling / Kristin Berger

10. Pacific Dogwood / Jerry Martien

11. Riparian / Sandra Alcosser

12. Ground Word: Old Growth

13. Each Step an Entry / Linda Hogan

14. Cosymbionts, The Art of Science & from Drainage Basin, Lookout Creek / Vicki Graham

15. Log Decomposition / Joan Maloof

16. Decomposition and Memory / Aaron M. Ellison

17. Ground Word: Decomposition

18. In the Experimental Forest, & Notes for a Prose Poem: Scientific Questions One Could Ask

19. Among the Douglas-Firs / Joseph Bruchac

20. From “Where the Forests Breath” / Brian Turner

21. From “Varieties of Attentiveness” / Freeman House

22. Poetry-Science Gratitude Duet / Alison Hawthorne Deming and Frederick J. Swanson

Part Two | Change and Continuity

1. Genesis: Primeval Rivers and Forests / Pattiann Rogers

2. Forests and People: a meandering reflection on changing relationships between forests and human culture / Bill Yake

3. From “Out of Time” / Scott Slovic

4. “Ten-Foot Gnarly Stick” and “Pondering” / James Bertoli

5. In the Palace of Rot / Thomas Lowe Fleischner

6. Ground Work: Disturbance

7. New Channel / Jeff Fearnside

8. Slough, Decay, and the Odor of Soil / Bill Yake

9. From “The Mountain Lion” / Tim Fox

10. Ground Work: Northern Spotted Owl

11. The Other Side of the Clear-Cut / Laird Christensen

12. Clear-Cut / Joan Maloof

13. Ground Work: Forest Practices

14. Hope Tour: Three Stops / Lori Anderson Moseman

15. Purity and Change: Reflections in an Old-Growth Forest / John Elder

Part Three | Borrowing Others’ Eyes

1. Wild Ginger / Jane Hirshfield

2. This Day, Tomorrow, and the Next / Pattiann Rogers

3. Portrait: Parsing My Wife as Lookout Creek / Andrew C. Gottlieb

4. On Assignment in the H.J. Andrews, the Poet Thinks of Her Ovaries / Maya Jewell Zeller

5. Piles of Pale Green / Joseph Bruchac

6. Design / Jerry Martien

7. Listening to Water / Robin Wall Kimmerer

8. Ground Work: Water

9. For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witch’s Hair, Map Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen / Jane Hirshfield

10. The Owl, Spotted / Alison Hawthorne Deming

11. From “Field Notes” / Thomas Lowe Fleischner

12. Return of the dead log people / Jerry Martien

13. Denizens of Decay / Tom A. Titus

14. Ground Work: Soundscape

15. Mind in the Forest / Scott Russell Sanders

16. Coda / Vicki Graham

17. Afterword: Advice to a Future Reader / Kathleen Dean Moore

For Further Reading

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum	15.03.2018
Zusatzinfo	14 illus., 2 maps
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	0-295-74366-2 / 0295743662
ISBN-13	978-0-295-74366-0 / 9780295743660
Zustand	Neuware