| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.4

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Forest of Time: A Century of Science at Wind River Experimental Forest. By Margaret Herring and Sarah Greene. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. ix + 188 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $22.95.
Forest of Time outlines scientific activity at the Wind River Experimental Forest in southwestern Washington. Sarah Greene is a forest ecologist and the manager of Wind River and another experimental forest, while Margaret Herring is a science writer at Oregon State University. The result of their partnership is a valuable case study of the evolution of applied science on the public domain.	1
The authors convincingly describe Wind River as "a place, a process, a product, a laboratory, a textbook" (p. 5). The forest lies in the Douglas fir region of the Pacific Northwest. Douglas firs were recognized early as valuable timber trees, especially after other forests became depleted by the 1890s. Scientific work at Wind River resulted from the expansion of the national forest system and chief Gifford Pinchot's emphasis on research. Thornton T. Munger arrived in 1908 and began a number of projects over a four-decade career. Munger and his successors learned a great deal about growing trees, and some early experiments are still producing results, including the study of old-growth forest in "research natural areas."	. . .

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