Forest Primeval - Hardcover

Maser, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871566834 ISBN 13: 9780871566836

Publisher: Sierra Club Books, 1989

Synopsis

In this unique "biography: of a beautiful forest in Oregon's Cascade Mountains, Chris Maser traces the growth of the forest from its birth in 988 to its current glory as an ancient forest much loved by the author since his childhood. He offers precise yet evocative accounts of the diverse lives and events within the forested portion of the ecosystem, such as the habits of deer mice who help re-seed the burned earth, the seemingly accidental but vitally necessary symbiotic associations between fungus and tree root tips that stimulate and maintain growth, the constant predation among wildlife that joins life to death to life, and a host of other miraculously and mysteriously interlocking life cycles. He shows how over the course of a millennium, "microbes and fungi change a forest just as surely as a ranging fire, only inconspiculously and more slowly."

About this edition

• Publisher: Sierra Club Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0871566834
• ISBN 13: 9780871566836
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 282