Necessary work : discovering old forests, new outlooks, and community on the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, 1948-2000 / Max G. Geier.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Geier, Max G.

Contributor:

Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.)

Series:

General technical report PNW ; 687.

General technical report PNW ; 687

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (Or.)--History.

H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (Or.).

Experimental forests--Oregon--History.

Experimental forests.

Forests and forestry--Research--Oregon--H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest--History.

Forests and forestry.

Foresters--Oregon--H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest--History.

Foresters.

Forest management--Oregon--H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest--History.

Forest management.

Forests and forestry--Research.

Oregon.

Oregon--H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 357 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Portland, OR : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, [2007]

Summary:

"The H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (Andrews Forest) is both an idea and a particular place. It is an experimental landscape, a natural resource, and an ecosystem that has long inspired many people. On the landscape of the Andrews Forest, some of those people built the foundation for a collaborative community that fosters closer communication among the scientists and managers who struggle to understand how that ecosystem functions and to identify optimal management strategies for this and other national forest lands in the Pacific Northwest. People who worked there generated new ideas about forest ecology and related ecosystems. Working together in this place, they generated ideas, developed research proposals, and considered the implications of their work. They functioned as individuals in a science-based community that emerged and evolved over time. Individuals acted in a confluence of personalities, personal choices, and power relations. In the context of this unique landscape and serendipitous opportunities, those people created an exceptionally potent learning environment for science and management. Science, in this context, was largely a story of personalities, not simply a matter of test tubes, experimental watersheds, or top-down management sponsored by a large federal agency or university. Ideas flowed in a constructed environment that eventually linked people, place, and community with an emerging vision of ecosystem management. Drawing largely on oral history, this book explores the inner workings and structure of that science-based community. Science themes, management issues, specific research programs, the landscape itself, and the people who work there are all indispensable components of a complex web of community, the Andrews group. The first four chapters explore the origins of the Forest Service decision to establish an experimental forest in the west-central Oregon Cascades in 1948 and the people and priorities that transformed that field site into a prominent facility for interdisciplinary research in the coniferous biome of the International Biological Programme in the 1970s. Later chapters explore emerging links between long-term research and interdisciplinary science at the Andrews Forest. Those links shaped the groups response to concerns about logging in old-growth forests during the 1980s and 1990s. Concluding chapters explore how scientists in the group tried to adapt to new roles as public policy consultants in the 1990s without losing sight of the community values that they considered crucial to their earlier accomplishments."

Contents:

Building an experimental place for science and community, 1948-1955

Envisioning long-term research and innovative science, 1955-1964

Basic science priorities and the International Biological Programme, 1964-1975

Fostering cooperation between research and management, 1970-1980

Integrated science and long-term programs of research

The old-growth debate and the Andrews

Mainstreaming the Andrews and transforming the mainstream

Managing data and building a collective memory of science through time

Conclusion : an ecosystem of ideas grounded in a place of inspiration.

Notes:

Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 1, 2007).

"March 2007."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Geier, Max G. Necessary work.

OCLC:

137298607

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