Description:
This gracefully written story of life in an Oregon Coast Range forest covers a span of more than sixty years. Not Just Trees tells about the amazing variety of life in this forest--from microorganisms to giant cedar and firs--as Edmunds records its life through selective logging and clearcutting. It reveals all we lose when we destroy ancient forests.
Brief description:
Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds began studying the Oregon forest as an undergraduate at Linfield College and continued to do so after she joined the Linfield faculty as its first female Ph.D.
Review Quotes:
"Once in a while you encounter a book so special, so steeped in love and integrity that--regardless of subject matter--it's impossible not to be drawn in. Not Just Trees is that sort of book."
--January Magazine