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Note: This issue is no longer available for purchase. "Bob
Zybach: Voices in the Forest"
"Bob Zybach: Voices in the Forest" is filled with anecdotes written by pioneers, the earliest forest surveyors, historians, scientists, photographers and others who first saw the region's forests and were inspired to chronicle what they witnessed. Readers quickly discover that these earliest descriptions of the region's forests do not match the images portrayed in the Clinton Forest Plan. In "We Climbed the Highest Mountains" Editor Jim Petersen recounts the history of oriented panoramic photographs - "Osborne's," so named for W.B. Osborne, inventor of the Osborne fire-finder, and the first person to mount a camera on a transit so it could be used to take 360-degree pictures. More than 800 such photographs were taken in the region's forests between 1933 and 1935. Perhaps 150 survive, providing visual proof of the accuracy of earlier anecdotal accounts written by explorers, pioneers and surveyors. This issue is must reading for anyone interested in knowing what Pacific Northwest forests looked like before revisionist historians got involved.
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To find out if the Clinton Forest Plan was workable, Oregon State University graduate student Bob Zybach held it up to a mirror to see if its images of the region's forests matched those recorded in photos and narrative accounts completed a hundred years ago. The images did not match. They weren't even close. When asked how he discovered so much historic and scientific evidence where the President's team found none, he said blithely, "I have a library card."