Ecoblitz

The Indiana Forest Alliance is a nonprofit with a mission to preserve and restore Indiana's native hardwood forest ecosystem for the enjoyment of all. The lead writer for the project is Anne Laker, former communications director at IFA. Anne has written newsletters and press releases about the IFA's wildlife inventory work. She's covered environmental policy for Howey Politics Indiana and is a published poet with an MA in English from IUPUI.

Foreword, by John Bacone Acknowledgments Prologue: Toward a Legible Forest, by Anne Laker Introduction, by Jeff Stant Part I: Forest as Superorganism by Emma Steele 1. Profile: Leslie Bishop, Ph.D.: Prismatic Forest, Prismatic Ecologist, by Anne Laker 2. Essay: Standing Sentinels: Observations on the Art of Tree Dating, by Justin Maxwell 3. Profile: Paul Rothrock, Ph.D.: Finding Floristic Quality, by Anne Laker 4. Q & A: Linda Cole: The Forest Within the Forest, by Anne Laker Part II: Complex Cooperators by Emma Steele 5. Essay: Identifying Back Country Area Fungi: A Baseline for Healthy Forests, by Stephen Russell 6. Profile: James Lendemer, Ph.D.: Learning the Lessons of Lichens, by Anne Laker Part III: Forest as Haven by Emma Steele 7. Essay: Letters from the Back Country: An Amateur's Passion, by Karen Smith 8. Essay: Rare Cerulean Warblers Raise Young along Honey Creek, by David Rupp 9. Up Close: Angie Daemm: Young Birder in an Old Forest, by Emma Steele 10. Q & A: Dale Sparks, Ph.D.: Chasing Bats in the BCA, by Emma Steele 11. Up Close: Samantha Buran: Of Plants and People, by Emma Steele Part IV: Insect Multitudes by Emma Steele 12. Profile: Glene Mynhardt, Ph.D.: Endless Entomology, by Anne Laker 13. Q&A: Robert Jean, Ph.D.: The Fellowship of the Bee, by Emma Steele 14. Up Close: Carl A. Strang, Ph.D.: Psalm of the Cricket, by Emma Steele 15. Up Close: Butterflies: How to Starve a Species, by Emma Steele 16. Profile: Leroy Koehn: The Life and Legacy of a Lepidopterist, by Anne Laker Part V: Forest as Spectacle by Emma Steele 17. Profile: Robert Brodman, Ph.D.: Endless Questions in a Field Biologist's Research Lab, by Deidre Pettinga 18. Up Close: Roger Carter and Jim Horton: Musings on Hoosier Herpetology, by Emma Steele 19. Essay: New Forest Spiders, for the Record, by Leslie Bishop 20. Up Close: Ecoblitz Aquatic Team: Waters of Naiads, by Emma Steele 21. Profile: Dr. John O. Whitaker: The Dean of Indiana Mammalogy, by Anne Laker Afterword: Full Circle, by Rae Schnapp Appendix 1: Complete Species List Appendix 2: Ecoblitz Participants Index