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72. Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. Research in South America has shown that the slow release of moisture held by some coastal forests is important to the formation of clouds that then take rain inland. Coastal deforestation is thus believed to contribute to climate change and desertification. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
72. Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. Research in South America has shown that the slow release of moisture held by some coastal forests is important to the formation of clouds that then take rain inland. Coastal deforestation is thus believed to contribute to climate change and desertification. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

72. Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. Research in South America has shown that the slow release of moisture held by some coastal forests is important to the formation of clouds that then take rain inland. Coastal deforestation is thus believed to contribute to climate change and desertification. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Artist (American, born 1937)
Date1999–2003
Period20th-21st century
MediumGelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsMat Size: 20 x 25 inches
Credit LinePurchase with funds provided by Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr.
Object number2006.026.072
Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art
_Place of OriginUnited States
71. Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. Research in South America has shown that the slow release of moisture held by some coastal forests is important to the formation of clouds that then take rain inland. Coastal deforestation is thus believed to contribute to climate change and desertification. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
71. Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. Research in South America has shown that the slow release of moisture held by some coastal forests is important to the formation of clouds that then take rain inland. Coastal deforestation is thus believed to contribute to climate change and desertification. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.071
73. Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. Research in South America has shown that the slow release of moisture held by some coastal forests is important to the formation of clouds that then take rain inland. Coastal deforestation is thus believed to contribute to climate change and desertification. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
73. Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. Research in South America has shown that the slow release of moisture held by some coastal forests is important to the formation of clouds that then take rain inland. Coastal deforestation is thus believed to contribute to climate change and desertification. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.073
74. Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. Research in South America has shown that the slow release of moisture held by some coastal forests is important to the formation of clouds that then take rain inland. Coastal deforestation is thus believed to contribute to climate change and desertification. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
74. Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. Research in South America has shown that the slow release of moisture held by some coastal forests is important to the formation of clouds that then take rain inland. Coastal deforestation is thus believed to contribute to climate change and desertification. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.074
51. An eroding clearcut, Pacific County, Washington. Erosion is an inevitable consequence of clearcutting. No people in history have clearcut without damaging the soil. If one turns a globe—China, India, the Near East, Europe, the eastern seaboard reminded that some degree of long-term deforestation has been the rule with clearcutting, and that this in turn has resulted in the diminishment of whole societies. Significantly, China has recently “stopped clearcutting native forests” and has “subsidized retraining of hundreds of thousands of loggers.” (The Oregonian, January 25, 2004) From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
51. An eroding clearcut, Pacific County, Washington. Erosion is an inevitable consequence of clearcutting. No people in history have clearcut without damaging the soil. If one turns a globe—China, India, the Near East, Europe, the eastern seaboard reminded that some degree of long-term deforestation has been the rule with clearcutting, and that this in turn has resulted in the diminishment of whole societies. Significantly, China has recently “stopped clearcutting native forests” and has “subsidized retraining of hundreds of thousands of loggers.” (The Oregonian, January 25, 2004) From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.051
53. An eroding clearcut, Pacific County, Washington. Erosion is an inevitable consequence of clearcutting. No people in history have clearcut without damaging the soil. If one turns a globe—China, India, the Near East, Europe, the eastern seaboard reminded that some degree of long-term deforestation has been the rule with clearcutting, and that this in turn has resulted in the diminishment of whole societies. Significantly, China has recently “stopped clearcutting native forests” and has “subsidized retraining of hundreds of thousands of loggers.” (The Oregonian, January 25, 2004) From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
53. An eroding clearcut, Pacific County, Washington. Erosion is an inevitable consequence of clearcutting. No people in history have clearcut without damaging the soil. If one turns a globe—China, India, the Near East, Europe, the eastern seaboard reminded that some degree of long-term deforestation has been the rule with clearcutting, and that this in turn has resulted in the diminishment of whole societies. Significantly, China has recently “stopped clearcutting native forests” and has “subsidized retraining of hundreds of thousands of loggers.” (The Oregonian, January 25, 2004) From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.053
52. An eroding clearcut, Pacific County, Washington. Erosion is an inevitable consequence of clearcutting. No people in history have clearcut without damaging the soil. If one turns a globe—China, India, the Near East, Europe, the eastern seaboard reminded that some degree of long-term deforestation has been the rule with clearcutting, and that this in turn has resulted in the diminishment of whole societies. Significantly, China has recently “stopped clearcutting native forests” and has “subsidized retraining of hundreds of thousands of loggers.” (The Oregonian, January 25, 2004) From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
52. An eroding clearcut, Pacific County, Washington. Erosion is an inevitable consequence of clearcutting. No people in history have clearcut without damaging the soil. If one turns a globe—China, India, the Near East, Europe, the eastern seaboard reminded that some degree of long-term deforestation has been the rule with clearcutting, and that this in turn has resulted in the diminishment of whole societies. Significantly, China has recently “stopped clearcutting native forests” and has “subsidized retraining of hundreds of thousands of loggers.” (The Oregonian, January 25, 2004) From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.052
98. Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. The Oregon Department of Forestry proposes a “compromise” by which clearcutting would be done less often on state-owned land. It is a proposal that fails to acknowledge the central contention of many of the industry’s critics, that forests are sacred and must never be totally cut lest they be permanently destroyed. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
98. Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. The Oregon Department of Forestry proposes a “compromise” by which clearcutting would be done less often on state-owned land. It is a proposal that fails to acknowledge the central contention of many of the industry’s critics, that forests are sacred and must never be totally cut lest they be permanently destroyed. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.098
99. Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. The Oregon Department of Forestry proposes a “compromise” by which clearcutting would be done less often on state-owned land. It is a proposal that fails to acknowledge the central contention of many of the industry’s critics, that forests are sacred and must never be totally cut lest they be permanently destroyed. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
99. Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. The Oregon Department of Forestry proposes a “compromise” by which clearcutting would be done less often on state-owned land. It is a proposal that fails to acknowledge the central contention of many of the industry’s critics, that forests are sacred and must never be totally cut lest they be permanently destroyed. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.099
20. A logging road on a hill above McGowan, Pacific County, Washington. The trees in an industrial forest are not allowed to live beyond infancy, but until there is further climate change or the soil is exhausted the landscape remains green. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
20. A logging road on a hill above McGowan, Pacific County, Washington. The trees in an industrial forest are not allowed to live beyond infancy, but until there is further climate change or the soil is exhausted the landscape remains green. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.020
Coastal Shipping
Coastal Shipping
Pieter Cornelis Dommershuijzen (Pieter Christian Dommersen)
1876
Object number: 1983.010
Union Coastal Supply Depot
Union Coastal Supply Depot
Samuel Masury
c. 1861–65
Object number: 1995.019
103. Saddle Mountain (3,257 feet) as seen from the side of Humbug Mountain (2,452 feet), Clatsop County, Oregon. Saddle Mountain is the highest point in the Coastal Range in northwestern Oregon. The sorrow one feels here today is not new. Sam Churchill (1911–1991), a well-known newspaperman who was raised in a logging camp near Saddle Mountain, remembered experiencing it as a young child walking with his mother: “I knew that already donkey engines of the Saddle Mountain Logging Company were gnawing at the vast belt of timber almost at the mountain’s foot. A great panic and sadness suddenly welled up within me. I clutched at on of Mother’s blackberry-picking hands. ‘I don’t want all the trees to be gone,’ I sobbed in boyish agony. There, in the sullen loneliness of a logged-off ridge top, and surrounded by blackberry vines and with Saddle
103. Saddle Mountain (3,257 feet) as seen from the side of Humbug Mountain (2,452 feet), Clatsop County, Oregon. Saddle Mountain is the highest point in the Coastal Range in northwestern Oregon. The sorrow one feels here today is not new. Sam Churchill (1911–1991), a well-known newspaperman who was raised in a logging camp near Saddle Mountain, remembered experiencing it as a young child walking with his mother: “I knew that already donkey engines of the Saddle Mountain Logging Company were gnawing at the vast belt of timber almost at the mountain’s foot. A great panic and sadness suddenly welled up within me. I clutched at on of Mother’s blackberry-picking hands. ‘I don’t want all the trees to be gone,’ I sobbed in boyish agony. There, in the sullen loneliness of a logged-off ridge top, and surrounded by blackberry vines and with Saddle
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.103