TY - BOOK ID - 77871751 TI - Edge effects PY - 1993 SN - 1587290057 9781587290053 0877454191 0877454388 9780877454199 9780877454380 PB - Iowa City University of Iowa Press DB - UniCat KW - Clearcutting -- Environmental aspects -- Oregon. KW - Forest ecology -- Oregon. KW - Hybrid zones -- Oregon. KW - Forest ecology KW - Hybrid zones KW - Clearcutting KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences KW - Ecology KW - Clear-cutting KW - Clear-felling KW - Clearfelling KW - Forest clearcutting KW - Timber clearcutting KW - Clearing of land KW - Forest management KW - Logging KW - Cutover lands KW - Intergrade zones KW - Life zones KW - Forest ecosystems KW - Forests and forestry KW - Environmental aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77871751 AB - Buying his dream house several years ago on the forest's edge near Corvallis, Oregon, essayist Chris Anderson hoped to find the joys of rural living. Despite interminable Mr. Blandings experiences, he lived embowered by 12,000 acres of seemingly endless fir trees. But not for long. The McDonald-Dunn Forest was about to become the site of a disturbing research project. Little did Anderson know when he bought his house that, in addition to studying the ecological effects of clear-cutting, the researchers wanted to see how urban fringe dwellers might be affected too. The shock of that harves ER -