From its first edition originally published in 1950, “Trees to Know in Oregon” has been an essential field guide for naturalists, ecologists, foresters, and anyone else interested in identifying and understanding the trees to be found in its title-referenced U.S. state.
It is one of history’s great ironies that the same source that gave mankind its proverbial best friend also gave it one of its greatest nightmares. Yet while the domestic dog has long-since become a trusted companion and protector in most human societies throughout the world, the still wild descendants of their ancestors – even though most of us have long-since developed a lifestyle to which they are not even remotely a threat to our health or well-being – continue to haunt the minds of far more of us than will ever (much as we may wish to) actually see one.
Oregon State University Press recently published a very interesting and insight-filled interview with Aimee Lyn Eaton, author of Collared; Politics and Personalities in Oregon’s Wolf Country.