Foreword, by John Bacone
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Toward a Legible Forest, by Anne Laker
Introduction, by Jeff Stant
Part I: Forest as Superorganism by Emma Steele
1. Profile: Leslie Bishop, Ph.D.: Prismatic Forest, Prismatic Ecologist, by Anne Laker
2. Essay: Standing Sentinels: Observations on the Art of Tree Dating, by Justin Maxwell
3. Profile: Paul Rothrock, Ph.D.: Finding Floristic Quality, by Anne Laker
4. Q & A: Linda Cole: The Forest Within the Forest, by Anne Laker
Part II: Complex Cooperators by Emma Steele
5. Essay: Identifying Back Country Area Fungi: A Baseline for Healthy Forests, by Stephen Russell
6. Profile: James Lendemer, Ph.D.: Learning the Lessons of Lichens, by Anne Laker
Part III: Forest as Haven by Emma Steele
7. Essay: Letters from the Back Country: An Amateur's Passion, by Karen Smith
8. Essay: Rare Cerulean Warblers Raise Young along Honey Creek, by David Rupp
9. Up Close: Angie Dämm: Young Birder in an Old Forest, by Emma Steele
10. Q & A: Dale Sparks, Ph.D.: Chasing Bats in the BCA, by Emma Steele
11. Up Close: Samantha Buran: Of Plants and People, by Emma Steele
Part IV: Insect Multitudes by Emma Steele
12. Profile: Glené Mynhardt, Ph.D.: Endless Entomology, by Anne Laker
13. Q&A: Robert Jean, Ph.D.: The Fellowship of the Bee, by Emma Steele
14. Up Close: Carl A. Strang, Ph.D.: Psalm of the Cricket, by Emma Steele
15. Up Close: Butterflies: How to Starve a Species, by Emma Steele
16. Profile: Leroy Koehn: The Life and Legacy of a Lepidopterist, by Anne Laker
Part V: Forest as Spectacle by Emma Steele
17. Profile: Robert Brodman, Ph.D.: Endless Questions in a Field Biologist's Research Lab, by Deidre Pettinga
18. Up Close: Roger Carter and Jim Horton: Musings on Hoosier Herpetology, by Emma Steele
19. Essay: New Forest Spiders, for the Record, by Leslie Bishop
20. Up Close: Ecoblitz Aquatic Team: Waters of Naiads, by Emma Steele
21. Profile: Dr. John O. Whitaker: The Dean of Indiana Mammalogy, by Anne Laker
Afterword: Full Circle, by Rae Schnapp
Appendix 1: Complete Species List
Appendix 2: Ecoblitz Participants
Index
