Two kinds of long-term research are taking place at the H. J.
Andrews Experimental Forest, a renowned research facility in the
temperate rain forest of the Oregon Cascades. Here, scientists
investigate the ecosystem's trees, wildlife, water, and nutrients
with an eye toward understanding change over varying timescales up
to two hundred years or more. And 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. 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.
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