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Edge effects : notes from an Oregon forest
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Chris, 1955-
- Series:
- American Land & Life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clearcutting--Environmental aspects--Oregon.
- Forest ecology--Oregon.
- Hybrid zones--Oregon.
- Forest ecology--Environmental aspects--Oregon.
- Forest ecology.
- Hybrid zones.
- Clearcutting--Oregon.
- Clearcutting.
- Local Subjects:
- Clearcutting--Environmental aspects--Oregon.
- Forest ecology--Oregon.
- Hybrid zones--Oregon.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa : University of Iowa Press, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Buying his dream house several years ago on the forest's edge near Corvallis, Oregon, essayist Chris Anderson hoped to find the joys of rural living. Despite interminable Mr. Blandings experiences, he lived embowered by 12,000 acres of seemingly endless fir trees. But not for long. The McDonald-Dunn Forest was about to become the site of a disturbing research project. Little did Anderson know when he bought his house that, in addition to studying the ecological effects of clear-cutting, the researchers wanted to see how urban fringe dwellers might be affected too. The shock of that harves
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; To the Reader; Forest of Voices; Life on the Edge; Excursions; Deeper in the Forest; Life and the Essay Compared to a Forest
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9781587290053
- 1587290057
- OCLC:
- 44959055
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