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147 notes Old-Growth Air 1. E. E. Cummings, “i thank you God for this most amazing day,” in 100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings (New York: Grove Press, 1959), 82. 2. Y. Ohtsuka, Noriyuki Yabunaka, and Shigeru Takayama, “Shinrin-yoku (Forest-Air Bathing and Walking) Effectively Decreases Blood Glucose Levels in Diabetic Patients,”International Journal of Biometeorology 41, no. 3 (1998): 125–27. 3. D. Helmig and J. Arey, “Organic Chemicals in the Air at Whitaker’s Forest—Sierra Nevada Mountains California,” Science of the Total Environment 112, nos. 2–3 (1992): 233–50. 4. Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire (New York: Random House, 2001). 5. Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Ninth Elegy,” in The Essential Rilke,sel.and trans.Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann (Hopewell : Ecco Press, 1999), 131–35; printed in its entirety in the appendix of this book. Hereafter, I refer to quotations from it by line numbers. Tulip Poplar 1. Julia Butterfly Hill, The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods (San Francisco: Harper, 2000). 2. Charles Bowden, The Secret Forest (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993), 54. 3. Ibid., 119–20. 148 Tree Hugger 1. Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998), 2. Sycamore 1. Joy Gilchrist, “The Pringle Brothers and the Sycamore Tree,” in www.hackerscreek.com/pringle.htm, accessed May 3, 2003. 2. Allen Kurta, Joseph Kath, Eric L. Smith, Rodney Foster, Michael W. Orick, and Ronald Ross, “A Maternity Roost of the Endangered Indiana Bat (Myotis sodalis) in an Unshaded, Hollow, Sycamore Tree (Platanus occidentalis),” American Midland Naturalist 130 (1993): 405–7. 3. Mark S. McClure, “Biology of Erythroneura lawsoni (Homoptera :Cicadellidae) and Coexistence in the Sycamore Leaf-Feeding Guild,” Environmental Entomology 3, no. 1 (1974): 59–68. 4. W. G. Wellington, “Conditions Governing the Distribution of Insects in the Free Atmosphere,” Canadian Entomologist 77 (1945): 7–15. 5. R. A. J. Taylor and D. Reling, “Preferred Wind Direction of Long Distance Leafhopper (Empoasca fabae) Migrants and Its Relevance to the Return Migration of Small Insects,” Journal of Animal Ecology 55 (1986): 1103–14. Beech 1. Anne M. Maglia, “Ontogeny and Feeding Ecology of the Red-backed Salamander, Plethodon cinereus,” Copeia 1996, no. 3 (1996): 576–86. 2. James H. Harding and J. Alan Holman, Michigan Frogs, Toads, and Salamanders:A Field Guide and Pocket Reference (East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1992). 3. John Travis, “Salamander Moms Use Bacteria to Save Eggs from Fungi,” Science News 163 (2003): 366. 4. James D. Ackerman and Michael R. Mesler, “Pollination 149 Biology of Listera cordata (Orchidaceae),” American Journal of Botany 66, no. 7 (1979): 820–24. 5. Janisse Ray, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1999), 123. 6. C. Maser and Z. Maser, “Interactions among Squirrels, Mycorrhizal Fungi, and Coniferous Forests in Oregon,” Great Basin Naturalist 48 (1988): 358–69. 7. Rainer Maria Rilke, “What Survives,” in The Migration of Powers, trans.A. Poulin Jr. (Port Townsend,Wash.: Graywolf Press, 1984), 43. Pine 1. Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods, ed. Joseph Moldenhauer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974), 122. 2. Ibid., 121. 3. John C. Moser and J. Robert Bridges, “Tarsonemus (Acarina: Tarsonemidae) Mites Phoretic on the Southern Pine Beetle (Coleoptera : Scolytidae): Attachment Sites and Numbers of Bluestain (Ascomycetes: Ophiostomataceae) Ascospores Carried,” Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 88, no. 2 (1986): 297–99. 4. Maryland Coastal Bays Program, “Habitat Workshop Sets Restoration Goals,” Solutions (Spring 2003): 3. 5. Jim Hanula, Southern Research Station Highlights from the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Symposium (2003), www.srs.fs.usda. gov, accessed April 8, 2003. Grandfather Trees 1. Thomas S. Frieswyk, Forest Statistics for Maryland: 1986 and 1999 (Resource Bulletin ne-154; Newtown Square, Pa.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, 2001). 2. Charles Bowden, The Secret Forest (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993), 51. 150 Oak 1.John Logan,“Poem,Slow to Come,on the Death of Cummings (1894–1962),” in Only the Dreamer Can Change the Dream (New York: Ecco Press, 1981), 139. 2. Howard Miller and Samuel Lamb, Oaks of North America (Happy Camp, Calif.: Naturegraph Publishers, 1985), 47. 3. Michael Steele and Peter Smallwood, “What Are Squirrels Hiding?” Natural History 10 (1994): 40–44. 4. Richard S. Ostfeld, Clive G. Jones, and Jerry O. Wolff, “Of Mice...