People and oaks

Paul F. Starrs

Treesearch

People and oaks

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Paul F. Starrs

Year:

2015

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-251. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station: 3-12

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Abstract

While technical knowledge of oaks, acorns, habitat, wildlife, and woodland environments is evolving and a sought-after field of study, there are profound linkages, at once humanistic and artistic, where it comes to people and oaks. Looking at six distinct facets of humans and oak woodlands, this essay suggests that the bonds of people to place can be mediated by the trees in our immediate surroundings. And as human companions in a living biogeography, oaks are especially recognized and significant.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the seventh California oak symposium: managing oak woodlands in a dynamic world

Keywords

art, human impacts, humanities, working woodlands

Citation

Starrs, Paul F. 2015. People and oaks. In: Standiford, Richard B.; Purcell, Kathryn L., tech. cords. Proceedings of the seventh California oak symposium: managing oak woodlands in a dynamic world. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-251. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station: 3-12.