Forest Under Story (eBook)

lt;P>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.

MapsCharles Goodrich | Entries into the Forest Part One | Research and Revelation1. The Long Haul / Robert Michael Pyle2. The Web / Alison Hawthorne Deming3. Scope: Ten Small Essays / John R. Campbell4. Ground Work: Natural History of the Andrews Forest Landscape5. Threads / Vicki Graham6. Interview with a Watershed / Robin Wall Kimmerer7. One-Day Field Count / Michael G. Smith8. Specimens Collected at the Clear-Cut / Alison Hawthorne Deming9. Forest Duff: A Poetic Sampling / Kristin Berger10. Pacific Dogwood / Jerry Martien11. Riparian / Sandra Alcosser12. Ground Word: Old Growth13. Each Step an Entry / Linda Hogan14. Cosymbionts, The Art of Science & from Drainage Basin, Lookout Creek / Vicki Graham15. Log Decomposition / Joan Maloof16. Decomposition and Memory / Aaron M. Ellison17. Ground Word: Decomposition18. In the Experimental Forest, & Notes for a Prose Poem: Scientific Questions One Could Ask19. Among the Douglas-Firs / Joseph Bruchac20. From “Where the Forests Breath” / Brian Turner21. From “Varieties of Attentiveness” / Freeman House22. Poetry-Science Gratitude Duet / Alison Hawthorne Deming and Frederick J. Swanson

Part Two | Change and Continuity1. Genesis: Primeval Rivers and Forests / Pattiann Rogers2. Forests and People: a meandering reflection on changing relationships between forests and human culture / Bill Yake3. From “Out of Time” / Scott Slovic4. “Ten-Foot Gnarly Stick” and “Pondering” / James Bertoli5. In the Palace of Rot / Thomas Lowe Fleischner6. Ground Work: Disturbance7. New Channel / Jeff Fearnside8. Slough, Decay, and the Odor of Soil / Bill Yake9. From “The Mountain Lion” / Tim Fox10. Ground Work: Northern Spotted Owl11. The Other Side of the Clear-Cut / Laird Christensen12. Clear-Cut / Joan Maloof13. Ground Work: Forest Practices14. Hope Tour: Three Stops / Lori Anderson Moseman15. Purity and Change: Reflections in an Old-Growth Forest / John Elder

Part Three | Borrowing Others’ Eyes1. Wild Ginger / Jane Hirshfield2. This Day, Tomorrow, and the Next / Pattiann Rogers3. Portrait: Parsing My Wife as Lookout Creek / Andrew C. Gottlieb4. On Assignment in the H.J. Andrews, the Poet Thinks of Her Ovaries / Maya Jewell Zeller5. Piles of Pale Green / Joseph Bruchac6. Design / Jerry Martien7. Listening to Water / Robin Wall Kimmerer8. Ground Work: Water9. For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witch’s Hair, Map Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen / Jane Hirshfield10. The Owl, Spotted / Alison Hawthorne Deming11. From “Field Notes” / Thomas Lowe Fleischner12. Return of the dead log people / Jerry Martien13. Denizens of Decay / Tom A. Titus14. Ground Work: Soundscape15. Mind in the Forest / Scott Russell Sanders16. Coda / Vicki Graham17. Afterword: Advice to a Future Reader / Kathleen Dean Moore

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