John C. Ryan, Ph.D. (2011), Edith Cowan University, is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of New England, Australia, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of Plants in Contemporary Poetry (Routledge, 2018). Rod Giblett, Ph.D. (1988), Murdoch University, is Honorary Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of Environmental Humanities and Theologies: Ecoculture, Literature, and the Bible (Routledge, 2018).

• AcknowledgementsList of Contributors1 Introducing Forest FamilyJohn C. Ryan and Rod GiblettPart 1: Old-Growth Nature and Culture2 From Understory to Overstory: Critical Studies of Old-Growth Trees and ForestsJohn C. Ryan3 Forest Giants: Locating Southwest Australian Old-Growth CountryJohn C. Ryan4 Family Trees: Jarrah, Karri, and the Gibletts of the Balbarrup-Dingup AreaRod Giblett5 Built in the Forest: A Hamlet History of Giblett Cultural HeritageRod GiblettPhotographic Essay: Let No Man Put AsunderJuha TolonenPart 2: Old-Growth Arts and Activism6 From Burls to Blockades: Artistic Interpretations of Karri Trees and ForestsJohn C. Ryan7 Sing the Karri, Sculpt the Jarrah: Sustaining Old-Growth Forest Through the ArtsRobin Ryan8 Old-Growth Activism: The Giblett Forest Rescue of 1994 and 1997Nandi Chinna

"This work also makes a worthy contribution to post-dualistic theories of how human histories arise in and out of complex transhuman negotiations." (Peer Reviewer)