![]() | Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest Subjects: Yupik Eskimos -- Science -- Alaska -- Bering Sea Coast; Yupik Eskimos -- Alaska -- Bering Sea Coast -- Social conditions; Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Alaska— Bering Sea Coast; Climatic changes -- Alaska -- Bering Sea Coast; Global environmental chang; 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. 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. |
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