Born of Fire and Rain: Journey Into a Pacific Coastal Forest

Go beyond the scenery of the Pacific temperate rainforest to witness how complex ecosystems survive in a...
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Author: M. L. Herring
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Language: English
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Born of Fire and Rain: Journey Into a Pacific Coastal Forest by Herring, M. L.

Born of Fire and Rain: Journey Into a Pacific Coastal Forest

$67.95

Born of Fire and Rain: Journey Into a Pacific Coastal Forest

$67.95
Author: M. L. Herring
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Go beyond the scenery of the Pacific temperate rainforest to witness how complex ecosystems survive in a world of upheavals

If you live on a rapidly changing planet, you'd be wise to learn how it works. The giant old forests on a skinny stretch of land on the far west coast of North America have a lot to say about living in a twitchy world.

In this engaging book science writer M. L. Herring takes readers into the Pacific temperate rainforest at the tumultuous edge of a shifting continent in a precarious moment of time. Readers peek behind the magnificent scenery into a forest of ancient trees, exploding mountains, disappearing owls, tsunamis, megafires, and ten million people to learn what it means to be a forest in a world of upheavals.

Through Herring's words and pictures, readers drift into the canopy through masses of ferns and lichens, burrow into soil through hair-thin threads of fungi, and plunge headlong through a watershed flushed with rain and snowmelt. Readers experience the temperate rainforest through science and art as it faces a shifting climate and the shifting priorities of a constantly changing society. The book journeys beyond the grid of latitude and longitude and into places only one's imagination can fit, to discover what it means to be human in an ecological world.

Author: M. L. Herring
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 10/29/2024
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780300275421

About the Author
M. L. Herring is associate professor emerita of science communication at Oregon State University, where she continues to lead workshops to inspire people to experience the world through observation, art, and ecology. She lives in Corvallis, OR.

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