TY - JOUR
AU1 - Maher, Susan Naramore
AB - 286 ISLE to keep the vines fruitful; the right balance between the "new and older wood" makes the next crop possible (22). But unwise cuts can kill: within sight of his vines rise mountains stripped of wood. As he clips branches, Radosevich ponders the choices made visible in those distant clearcuts. Correct cuts, deliberately and responsibly done, may bring forth new life, but careless and irresponsible pruning destroys the very nature of a forest. So how do we choose? Responsible decision making, Radosevich suggests, requires an apprenticeship to someone who has long been making good choices, someone who has seen how cuts create the future, a person who has lived with his decisions long enough to think long term. In sharp contrast to Radosevich's apprenticeship to his grandfa- ther stands the "tyranny of small decisions" that have led to today's forest management orthodoxy, which asserts that forestry is "equiva- lent to farming," a simplistic equation that sees a forest as a cornfield: clearcut, replant, clearcut, replant (84, 85). Clearcutting, Radosevich charges, is the "result of too many easy, simple, separate decisions .... It takes a collective state of mind to cut down an entire ancient forest" (84). He argues 
TI - Oh, Give Me a Home: Western Contemplations
JF - ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
DO - 10.1093/isle/14.2.286
DA - 2007-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/oh-give-me-a-home-western-contemplations-tAVlMdDEzg
SP - 286
EP - 288
VL - 14
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -