Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Reading the Forested Landscape: Where to Begin (Ian Marshall) Site 1: Twin Bridges On Orange Teeth and Busy Beavers (Scott Weidensaul) Dams and Lushness (David Gessner) The Insistence of Forests (Hannah Inglesby) In Search of Signs (Michael P. Branch) Site 2: The Sawmill Site The Mill and the Hemlocks (Scott Weidensaul) Looking into the Past: The Rudy Sawmill (Jacy Marshall-McKelvey) Nothing Remains the Same (Marcia Bonta) The Saw (Perpetual) Mill (Julianne Lutz Warren) Site 3: The Chestnut Orchard Which Side Are You On? (Michael P. Branch) Reflections on Ecology from the Chestnut Grove (Carolyn Mahan) The Chestnut Plantation (John Lane) Almost Lost (Katie Fallon) Site 4: The Dark Cliffy Spot The Dark Cliffy Place: A Fiction Fragment in Imitation of Cormac McCarthy (David Gessner) Song for the Unnamed Creek (David Taylor) Naming a Place, Placing a Name (Michael P. Branch) Reflections on Ecology at the Dark Cliffy Spot (Carolyn Mahan) Site 5: The Bluebird Trail Battleground (Scott Weidensaul) Plotlines, Transitions, and Ecotones (Ian Marshall) Caught in the Web (John Lane) A New Sound (Katie Fallon) Site 6: Lake Perez The Lake on Ice (Ian Marshall) Wet Earth (Todd Davis) Spring Melt (Todd Davis) Lake Perez: Reflections (Julianne Lutz Warren) Fog on Lake Perez (John Lane) Site 7: The Lake Trail Clockwise Around the Lake (Ian Marshall) Circumambulating the Lake (David Gessner) The Work of Walking (David Taylor) A Place for Exuberance (Hannah Inglesby) A Little Quiet, Please (Marcia Bonta) Site 8 : The Raptor Center Earning Intimacy at the Raptor Center (David Taylor) Eagle Acquaintances (Hannah Inglesby) The Raptor (Eye) Center (Julianne Lutz Warren) I Remember a Bird (Katie Fallon) Bibliography About the Contributors.