{"product_id":"not-just-trees-the-legacy-of-a-douglas-fir-forest-paperback","title":"Not Just Trees: The Legacy of a Douglas-Fir Forest - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJane Claire Dirks-Edmunds\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert Michael Pyle\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe word \"unique\" is overused. But in the case of \u003ci\u003eNot Just Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, that description is accurate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot Just Trees\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot Just Trees\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHalfway 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 \u003ci\u003eNot Just Trees, \u003c\/i\u003e a very personal account of the life of one forest, observed for six decades by one woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 9.09 x 6.09 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 16, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758127743264,"sku":"9780874221701","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/87b2a4de533269656e27dc90d7d38190.webp?v=1780118708","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/not-just-trees-the-legacy-of-a-douglas-fir-forest-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}