Return of the dead log people

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Maps 1
4. Entries into the Forest 5
5. Part One – Research and Revelation
6. The Long Haul 17
7. The Web 21
8. Scope: Ten Small Essays 23
9. Ground Work: Natural History of the Andrews Forest Landscape
10. Threads 38
11. Interview with a Watershed 41
12. One-Day Field Count 52
13. Specimens Collected at the Clear-Cut 53
14. Forest Duff: A Poetic Sampling 57
15. Pacific Dogwood (Cornus nuttallii) 59
16. Riparian 61
17. Each Step an Entry 67
18. Cosymbionts 69
19. Log Decomposition 75
20. Decomposition and Memory 77
21. Ground Work Decomposition 84
22. In the Experimental Forest 86
23. Among the Douglas-Firs 89
24. From: Where the Forests Breathe 92
25. From: Varieties of Attentiveness 93
26. Poetry-Science Gratitude Duet 97
27. Part Two – Change and Continuity
28. Genesis Primeval Rivers and Forests 105
29. Forests and People: a meandering reflection on changing relationships between forests and human culture 107
30. From: Out of Time 115
31. Ten-Foot Gnarly Stick 117
32. Pondering 118
33. In the Palace of Rot 119
34. Ground Work: Disturbance 120
35. New Channel 123
36. Slough, Decay, and the Odor of Soil 126
37. From The Mountain Lion 127
38. Ground Work: Northern Spotted Owl 135
39. The Other Side of the Clear-Cut 137
40. Clear-Cut 149
41. Ground Work 152
42. Hope Tour: Three Stops 154
43. Purity and Change: Reflections in an Old-Growth Forest 156
44. Part Three – Borrowing Others’ Eyes
45. Wild Ginger 171
46. This Day, Tomorrow, and the Next 174
47. Portrait: Parsing My Wife as Lookout Creek 178
48. On Assignment in the H. J. Andrews, the Poet Thinks of Her Ovaries 181
49. Piles of Pale Green 182
50. Design 185
51. Listening to Water 187
52. Ground Work: Water 197
53. For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witch’s Hair, Map Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen 199
54. The Owl, Spotted: Alison Hawthorne Deming 200
55. From Field Notes 204
56. Return of the dead log people 205
57. Denizens of Decay 207
58. Ground Work: Soundscape 212
59. Mind in the Forest 214
60. Coda 226
61. Afterword: Advice to a Future Reader 227
62. For Further Reading 235
63. About the Editors 239
64. About the Contributors 241
65. About the Contributors 249