Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments viii
4. Introduction. Reading the Forested Landscape 1
5. Site 1 Twin Bridges
6. On Orange Teeth and Busy Beavers 19
7. Dams and Lushness 23
8. The Insistence of Forests 27
9. In Search of Signs 29
10. Site 2 The Sawmill
11. The Mill and the Hemlocks 35
12. Looking into the Past 40
13. Nothing Remains the Same 44
14. The Saw (Perpetual) Mill 48
15. Site 3 The Chestnut Orchard
16. Which Side Are You On? 51
17. Reflections on Ecology from the Chestnut Grove 57
18. The Chestnut Plantation 59
19. Almost Lost 62
20. Site 4 The Dark Cliffy Spot
21. The Dark Cliffy Place 67
22. Song for the Unnamed Creek 71
23. Naming a Place, Placing a Name 73
24. Reflections on Ecology at the Dark Cliffy Spot 79
25. Site 5 The Bluebird Trail
26. Battleground 83
27. Plotlines, Transitions, and Ecotones 89
28. Caught in the Web 95
29. A New Sound 96
30. Site 6 Lake Perez
31. The Lake on Ice 101
32. Wet Earth 107
33. Spring Melt 108
34. Lake Perez: Reflections 109
35. Fog on Lake Perez 114
36. Site 7 The Lake Trail
37. Clockwise Around the Lake 119
38. Circumambulating the Lake 126
39. The Work of Walking 129
40. A Place for Exuberance 130
41. A Little Quiet, Please 132
42. Site 8 The Raptor Center
43. Earning Intimacy at the Raptor Center 139
44. Eagle Acquaintances 143
45. The Raptor (Eye) Center 145
46. I Remember a Bird 148
47. Bibliography 151
48. About the Contributors 154