Goode, Jennie. 2017. Terrain.org. Book Review of "Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest". 2016. Brodie, Nathaniel; Goodrich, Charles; Swanson, Frederick J. (eds). Univerisity of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington. 264p.
In 2003, the Andrews became the site of another kind of investigation, the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program, which brings writers to the forest for a week or two to observe and reflect on what they see. As part of their stay, writers visit four “Reflections Plots”—a clearcut, a selectively logged hillside, a log-decomposition site, and a gravel bar created by a major flood—to learn about the research occurring at each location. Just as the science at the Andrews has been going on for decades, so too is the Reflections program intended to extend into a distant future. Forest Under Story, a compilation of writing from the first dozen years, is the initial installment in what’s envisioned to be two centuries of literary response to the forest.