| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4

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Book Review

Forest of Time: A Century of Science at Wind River Experimental Forest. By Margaret Herring and Sarah Greene. Foreword by William G. Robbins. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. ix + 188 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $22.95.)

Two expert observations cited in this fine short book suggest the intent of authors Margaret Herring and Sarah Greene. "Nowhere," the German-American forester, Gernhardt Fernow, wrote as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth, "is the record of experience and the historic method of study of more value than in an empirical art like forestry, in which it takes decades, a lifetime, nay a century to see the final effects of operations" (p. 14). Writing in 1816, Heinrich von Cotta, a pioneer of Prussian forestry, noted that "it is a sure sign of shallowness if anybody believes he knows it all" (p. 151). Scientific methodology, applied over the long term, was, and remains, the work of the Wind River Experimental Forest, located on the semi-remote slopes of the Cascade Range in south-central Washington state.

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