![]() ![]() At that time, the forest was a mix of old-growth and mature forest. Andrews Experimental Forest in 1948 by the US Forest Service. The program has its roots in the establishment of the H.J. We collaborate with dozens of university and federal scientists, students, and managers to support ecosystem science, education, natural resource management, and the arts and humanities. ![]() The Andrews Forest is a center for forest and stream ecosystem research in the Pacific Northwest. Some of these trees grow as high as 250 feet (75 meters), and many of them are 300, 500, a few even 700 years old. Huge, iconic Pacific Northwest old-growth conifer forests grow here with cedar, hemlock, and moss-draped ancient Douglas fir trees. Most of the landscape is covered in dense forest. ![]() Cold and fast running streams flow through the many valleys of the forest. The landscape is steep, with hills and deep valleys. The entire 15,800-acre (6400-ha) site is the watershed, or drainage basin, of Lookout Creek. The HJ Andrews Experimental Forest is located in Oregon, in the Cascade Mountains. To facilitate this extraordinary interdisciplinary collaboration, David has been appointed the first Designer-in-Residence in the history of the HJ Andrews LTER program and the inaugural Design Fellow at the Full Initiative for Productive Landscapes. Additional lectures, exhibitions, and an upcoming series of FIPL-funded landscape installations are in development for in variety of publicly accessible venues across Oregon.ĭavid is indebted to HJA’s Fred Swanson, Lina DiGregorio, and Michael Nelson, UO’s Landscape Architecture Department’s Roxi Thoren, and the Fuller Initiative’s Michael Geffel and Liska Chan for this unique opportunity. In addition to teaching studio and environmental communication course work through the lens of his creative practice, David is spearheading a new design-ecology initiative between the Landscape Architecture Department and HJ Andrews Experimental Forest (HJA) with support from the Fuller Initiative for Productive Landscapes (FIPL).Īt present, this initiative includes course work at UO, a wildfire-themed design program at the Overlook Field School with the FIPL, and lectures at Oregon State University, University of Oregon, Spring Creek Project, and HJ Andrews. Trapper Keeper, mixed-media backpack, cotton canvas, silkscreened muslin, furniture plywood, plastic tubes, tree saplings, paracord, rubber band, nickel grommets, and assorted thread and hardware, dimensions vary on payload but generally 8 x 20 x 30 inches, 2022.ĭavid Buckley Borden was invited to join the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Oregon’s School of Architecture and Environment for a two-year Visiting Professor appointment in the fall of 2020. ![]() This pack is a modification of the traditional government-issued design with tactical pockets for bodily autonomy, double stitched strapping for durability and strength, a plywood frame for easy peel apart kindling, wet tube for cottonwood saplings for guerrilla gardening in the forest (to attract beaver), and reinforced cotton lining featuring a decoded environmental wayfinding system to practice, and teach future and fellow environmentalists. This Trapper Keeper is much more than a backpack, it’s a mobile support system for backcountry lookout tower personnel. The Trapper Keeper, packed with a variety of field tech, survival gear, and select choice creature comforts is essential for long treks to remote destinations such as supply sheds, bunk cabins, weather stations, and the wildfire lookout tower itself. Nancy Silvers’ Trapper Keeper was also funded by the Ford Family Foundation through a grant to the Center for Art Research at the University of Oregon. This project is funded by grants to David Buckley Borden from the Fuller Initiative for Productive Landscapes at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University Foundation’s Andrews Forest Fund. Borden, Asa DeWitt, Isaac Martinotti, Helen Popinchalk, Kennedy Rauh, Nancy Silvers, Madison Sanders, Blake Schouten, Ian Escher Vierck, and Sabine Winkler. The speculative research-based work critically explores the relationship between the people, place, and practices of Pacific Northwest forests with a pointed focus on wildfire factors at the intersection of culture and ecology.Ĭollaborators: William Bonner, Rachel Benbrook, Christian D. The mixed media series of personal objects explores the “fashions and fashionings” of a backcountry fire lookout tower on the fictitious Abbzug Butte. Forest Fashion, Lookout Edition, is an ongoing interdisciplinary project by Fuller Design Fellow, David Buckley Borden, and collaborators. ![]()
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