Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Reading the Forested Landscape: Where to Begin (Ian Marshall)
Site 1: Twin Bridges
On Orange Teeth and Busy Beavers (Scott Weidensaul)
Dams and Lushness (David Gessner)
The Insistence of Forests (Hannah Inglesby)
In Search of Signs (Michael P. Branch)
Site 2: The Sawmill Site
The Mill and the Hemlocks (Scott Weidensaul)
Looking into the Past: The Rudy Sawmill (Jacy Marshall-McKelvey)
Nothing Remains the Same (Marcia Bonta)
The Saw (Perpetual) Mill (Julianne Lutz Warren)
Site 3: The Chestnut Orchard
Which Side Are You On? (Michael P. Branch)
Reflections on Ecology from the Chestnut Grove (Carolyn Mahan)
The Chestnut Plantation (John Lane)
Almost Lost (Katie Fallon)
Site 4: The Dark Cliffy Spot
The Dark Cliffy Place: A Fiction Fragment in Imitation of Cormac McCarthy (David Gessner)
Song for the Unnamed Creek (David Taylor)
Naming a Place, Placing a Name (Michael P. Branch)
Reflections on Ecology at the Dark Cliffy Spot (Carolyn Mahan)
Site 5: The Bluebird Trail
Battleground (Scott Weidensaul)
Plotlines, Transitions, and Ecotones (Ian Marshall)
Caught in the Web (John Lane)
A New Sound (Katie Fallon)
Site 6: Lake Perez
The Lake on Ice (Ian Marshall)
Wet Earth (Todd Davis)
Spring Melt (Todd Davis)
Lake Perez: Reflections (Julianne Lutz Warren)
Fog on Lake Perez (John Lane)
Site 7: The Lake Trail
Clockwise Around the Lake (Ian Marshall)
Circumambulating the Lake (David Gessner)
The Work of Walking (David Taylor)
A Place for Exuberance (Hannah Inglesby)
A Little Quiet, Please (Marcia Bonta)
Site 8 : The Raptor Center
Earning Intimacy at the Raptor Center (David Taylor)
Eagle Acquaintances (Hannah Inglesby)
The Raptor (Eye) Center (Julianne Lutz Warren)
I Remember a Bird (Katie Fallon)
Bibliography
About the Contributors