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Forest Under Story
Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest
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.
About the Authors
Reviews
"The publication of Forest Under Story represents a turning point in cross-disciplinary collaboration between scientists and writers. . . . Forest Under Story is very successful in its ability to inspire in the reader an ecological awareness of the temperate forests in Oregon and elsewhere."—Erik F. Ringle, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
"Forest Under Story demonstrates that a holistic survey of any forest includes not just data, charts and EIS, but also stories and reflections from the human heart."—Cascadia Weekly (2016 Gift Guide for Greenies)
Endorsements
"There are many ways to see and experience a forest and this diversity is beautifully represented in this collection of poems, essays, and observations by a diverse array of artists who participated in a long-term reflections program at the H. J. Andrews Experimental. In my nearly 60 years of studying the forests of Andrews, I remain humbled by their magnificence—and now by the deep, fresh insights of the many writers represented in this book."—Jerry Franklin, professor of forest ecosystems, University of Washington
"To learn one place in the world may be the beginning of learning our place in the world. Like the old-growth forest where they were written, these wonderfully thoughtful descriptions, essays, poems, and meditations offer rich and vigorous variety, exquisite detail, and broad vistas of time and possibility."—Ursula LeGuin
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Hardback | |
January 28, 2016 | |
9780295995458 | |
English | |
264 | |
14 illus., 2 maps | |
8.50 Inches (US) | |
5.50 Inches (US) | |
1.2 Pounds (US) | |
$34.95 USD, £19.50 GBP | |
v2.1 Reference | |
Paperback / softback | |
February 6, 2018 | |
9780295743660 | |
English | |
264 | |
14 illus., 2 maps | |
8.50 Inches (US) | |
5.50 Inches (US) | |
.85 Pounds (US) | |
$19.95 USD | |
v2.1 Reference | |
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