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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In the Andrews Experimental Forest, ‘experimental’ is the domain of the scientist and writer alike. It is also the domain of the forest itself. . . . Forest Under Story seems keenly aware that the most important feature of language involves listening. When writers listen to the forest, when they press their ears against the bark of a hemlock or yew, the forest always speaks, however softly."
-- Lawrence Lenhart * High Country News *
"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) *
Table of ContentsMaps
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
