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From the Forest to the Sea: The Ecology of Wood in Streams, Rivers, Estuaries, and Oceans

By Chris Maser and James Sedell

$59.95, 1994, 208pp., ISBN 1-884015-17-4

"...the book makes a very significant contribution. (It) manages to highlight (aquatic environments) in a way that...impart(s) genuine understanding to the...reader." Forestry

A fascinating new scientific work that discusses the role wood plays in very complex and diverse aquatic ecosystems. Wood in streams and rivers is a source of food energy for invertebrates. Along coastlines, wood stabilizes sand pits, beaches, and dune complexes. The loss of wood to aquatic ecosystems means destabilization. This subject is extremely important in the ecologically fragile times we live in now. Includes 70 illustrations.

Key Features:

• Wood as a source of valuable food energy for invertebrate organisms
• Obligatory, wood-boring marine invertebrates and the breaking down of wood and the useable carbon created
• Creation of new habitats for innertidal organisms and the coastal food chain
• The destabilization of streams, estuaries, dunes, and beaches when wood is lost to aquatic ecosystems

As one reviewer said, "this is a book everyone should read." It has appeal to ecologists and those interested in commercial health. There is an obvious appeal to environmentalists, conservationists and ecologists.

Editors/Authors

Lead author Chris Maser is a consultant and lecturer on environmental issues and much-needed environmental mediation with more than 20
years of experience as a research scientist in natural history and ecology. He has worked in Nepal, Egypt, Puget Sound, Germany, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, France, malyasia, and Slovakia. His credits include
serveral successful books, including Sustainable Forestry. The Forest Primeval was cited by the School Library Association as the best scientific book of the year.

Table of Contents:

Part I: The Present: A servered Connection

• European Settlement and Laissez-Faire Capitalism

Part II: From the Forest to the Sea: Source, Function and Transport of Wood

• The Streams
• The McKenzie River
• The Willamette and Columbia Rivers
• The Estuary
• The Sea

Part III: From the Sea to the Forest: Settlement

• The Sea and Estuaries
• The Rivers and Streams

$59.95, 1994, 208pp., ISBN 1-884015-17-4

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