Not just trees : the legacy of a Douglas-fir forest
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Not just trees : the legacy of a Douglas-fir forest
Washington State University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-315) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
Foreword, 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
Index
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