Providing a foundation of knowledge to help protect forests
Using science and storytelling to celebrate the importance of forest life and ecosystems.
As the climate and planet continue to change, many people are trying to understand and grasp how the natural world is connected to their everyday lives. So often the questions is asked, what is the value of an individual species? Or what is the value of biodiversity? This project will create a set of tools to help answer those questions, providing researchers, educators and media outlets a platform to introduce communities and decision makers to the importance of forest biodiversity and its role on our planet.
Science Communication
This project will work to combine the leading science and research on how forest ecosystems work with engaging imagery and storytelling to create a collection of visual essays that inform audiences on their importance and the vital need for science-based decision making in forests.
Science Collaboration
Imagery created for this project will be guided by the research and science of HJ Andrews Experimental Forest. Tucked in the Cascade Mountain Range in Western Oregon, this long term ecological research site is one of the most studied old-growth ecosystems on the planet and has laid the foundation for forest science world-wide.
Linking the canopy, hundreds of feet in the air, with the aquatic life below.
Few environments are more important in mitigating the impacts of climate change than the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. These carbon storing ecosystems and the biodiversity within them represent some of our planet’s greatest nature-based solutions for maintaining environmental health.
Sharing the unseen relationships that drive our planet.
A Forest Experience - This collection of visual essays will be made available to researchers, educators and media outlets providing them with a tool and platform to introduce communities and decision makers to the importance of forest biodiversity in the Pacific Northwest.
Providing a new perspective into the importance of healthy old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest.
