The Ground at My Feet
Sustaining a Family and a Forest
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2021
Oregon State University (Verlag)
978-0-87071-146-6 (ISBN)
Oregon State University (Verlag)
978-0-87071-146-6 (ISBN)
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Weaving lyric essays, poems, natural history, forest science, and a personal and familial account of grief and sustenance, Ann Stinson creates an unusually rich and layered account of life in a family forest in the Pacific Northwest.
Ann Stinson grew up on her family’s tree farm in southwestern Washington state, on a ridge above the Cowlitz River. After building a life in New York and Portland, she returned home at the age of fifty, when her brother’s death from cancer left her manager and co-owner of three hundred acres planted in Douglas fir, western red cedar, and ponderosa pine.
The Ground at My Feet is a memoir about loss and grief as well as a portrait of a family, a region, and an industry. Combining personal story and research, Stinson weaves essays, poems, history, and science into a rich and layered account of life in a family forest in the Pacific Northwest. She maps interactions between the land and its people over two centuries: the Cowlitz peoples, homesteaders, and several generations of logging families who have worked the property. She follows her family’s logs as they become lumber for fence boards and suburban homes, touring a local cedar mill and traveling with her father to visit mills in Japan.
Stinson adds a landowner’s voice to conversations about the human tendency to demand more of the land than it can sustain. With its uniquely personal view of the Pacific Northwest’s timber and forestry heritage, The Ground at My Feet is an engaging addition to the literature of the landscape and ecology of the West.
Ann Stinson grew up on her family’s tree farm in southwestern Washington state, on a ridge above the Cowlitz River. After building a life in New York and Portland, she returned home at the age of fifty, when her brother’s death from cancer left her manager and co-owner of three hundred acres planted in Douglas fir, western red cedar, and ponderosa pine.
The Ground at My Feet is a memoir about loss and grief as well as a portrait of a family, a region, and an industry. Combining personal story and research, Stinson weaves essays, poems, history, and science into a rich and layered account of life in a family forest in the Pacific Northwest. She maps interactions between the land and its people over two centuries: the Cowlitz peoples, homesteaders, and several generations of logging families who have worked the property. She follows her family’s logs as they become lumber for fence boards and suburban homes, touring a local cedar mill and traveling with her father to visit mills in Japan.
Stinson adds a landowner’s voice to conversations about the human tendency to demand more of the land than it can sustain. With its uniquely personal view of the Pacific Northwest’s timber and forestry heritage, The Ground at My Feet is an engaging addition to the literature of the landscape and ecology of the West.
Ann Stinson grew up on the Cowlitz Ridge Tree Farm near Toledo, Washington. After high school, her interests took her to Bellingham, Japan, New York City, and then to Portland. She has a BA in English from Western Washinbgton University and an MA in East Asian Studies from Columbia University. She taught school in New York City and for the Parkrose School District in Portland, Oregon. She splits her time between Portland, where she lives with her husband, Tom, and Toledo, where she works on the tree farm. She is president of the Family Forest Foundation and is on the board of the Washington Farm Forestry Association.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.12.2021 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 28 b&w images |
| Verlagsort | Corvallis, OR |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 139 x 213 mm |
| Gewicht | 227 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-87071-146-6 / 0870711466 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-87071-146-6 / 9780870711466 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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