Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest | 2016
"Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest" (University of Washington Press, 2016), edited by Nathaniel Brodie, Charles Goodrich, and Frederick J. Swanson, is an anthology that grows out of the work of the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, where 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.
"Forest Under Story" 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. 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. They reveal ambiguities and paradoxes of conflicting human values as well as their implications for the ecosystem.
The collection 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 Editors
Nathaniel Brodie is a freelance writer, Charles Goodrich is a poet and Spring Creek Project Senior Fellow, and Frederick J. Swanson is a Spring Creek Project Senior Fellow and retired research geologist with a Pacific Northwest Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service.