Forest Primeval |  | Author: Maser
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 3,708,180
Format: Import
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Ex-Library
Pages: 282
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0871566834
EAN: 9780871566836
ASIN: 0871566834
Publication Date: 1989
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Product Description
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."
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