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Overview"The word ""unique"" is overused. But in the case of Not Just Trees, that description is accurate.Not Just Trees is the gracefully written story of life in an ancient Oregon Coast Range forest. Covering a span of more than sixty years, it is the tale of the mighty Douglas-firs and cedars and hemlocks that once grew there. But an ancient forest is more than just trees, and this book is also about the lives of great and small creatures and plants, of slugs and worms, spiders and bugs, butterflies and birds, lichens and mosses. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds began studying a small parcel of ancient forest in western Oregon while an undergraduate student at Linfield College. After receiving her doctorate she returned to Linfield to teach biology for more than thirty years and again study her beloved forest on Saddleback Mountain, recording its life through logging in the 1940s and clearcutting in the 1980s. This type of in-depth study, over so many years, has never been undertaken on a single western forest before, nor is it likely to ever be repeated. Not Just Trees tells about the amazing variety of life in the forest. It is also the story of a tenacious woman, an ecologist who studied Oregon flora and fauna before there were guidebooks, at a time when precious few even knew what the word ""ecology"" meant. Halfway through her sophomore year during her days as a Linfield student, Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds visited the ecological research site of her mentor, Professor James A. Macnab. From that day, the forest on Saddleback Mountain was never far from her mind or heart. Dr. Dirks-Edmunds' dedication to that forest has now culminated in Not Just Trees, a very personal account of the life of one forest, observed for six decades by one woman." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds , Robert Michael PylePublisher: Washington State University Press Imprint: Washington State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.585kg ISBN: 9780874221701ISBN 10: 0874221706 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 16 February 1999 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsForeword, by Robert Michael PylePrologue Part I: Babes in the Woods One: Forest, a Living Being Two: Spring Comes to the Forest Three: Lost Prairie Four: Indian Summer Five: The Rains Came Six: Trial by Fire Seven: To Skin a Hummingbird Eight: Babes in the Woods Nine: A Better Way Ten: Troubled Seasons Eleven: Ellis Barn Twelve: Saddleback? Saddlebag? Saddle Bag? Saddle? Where Are We? Thirteen: Even Fairy Tales End Part II: Evolution of an Ecologist Fourteen: Evolution of an Ecologist Fifteen: Hiatus Part III: Phoenix Sixteen: Out of the Ashes Seventeen: A New Eden? Eighteen: The Community of Life Nineteen: Birds Twenty: Mammals Twenty-one: Murphy Road Part IV: Essence of the Forest Twenty-two: Search for the Essence Twenty-three: Mosquitoes and Their Ilk Twenty-four: Wasp-waisted Beauties Twenty-five: Insects in Armor Twenty-six: Scaly Wings Twenty-seven: Potpourri Twenty-eight: Woodworkers Twenty-nine: A Fine Day for Slugs Thirty: Make Mine Truffles, Please Thirty-one: Miracle of the Seasons Thirty-two: Bridging of Life in the Forest City Epilogue: One Last Look: I Never Thought it Would be Like This! Appendix: A Note on Scientific Names Glossary References and Readings About the Author IndexReviews"""A remarkable and important book. Readers with an interest in the environment, the life of a forest or living women pioneers would do well to add it to their library."" --January Magazine ""Once in a while you encounter a book so special, so steeped in love and integrity that--regardless of subject matter--it's impossible not to be drawn in. Not Just Trees is that sort of book."" --January Magazine" Once in a while you encounter a book so special, so steeped in love and integrity that--regardless of subject matter--it's impossible not to be drawn in. Not Just Trees is that sort of book. Author InformationJane Claire Dirks-Edmunds began studying the Oregon forest as an undergraduate at Linfield College and continued to do so after she joined the Linfield faculty as its first female Ph.D. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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