Table of Contents

Maps

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

Promotional Information

This anthology 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.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"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))