Hemlock Hospice Sculpture Installation at Harvard Forest 2018-2019

<para>Hemlock Hospice was an art-science collaboration between David Buckley Borden, 2016-2017 artist and designer-in-residence at the Harvard Forest, and Harvard Forest Senior Ecologist Aaron Ellison. It featured innovative art installed in the Fisher Museum and along a temporary interpretative walking trail on Prospect Hill, focused on eastern hemlock, a foundation tree in eastern forests that is slowly vanishing from North America as it is weakened and killed by a small insect, the hemlock woolly adelgid. Hemlock Hospice blended science, art, and design in respecting hemlock and its ecological role as a foundation forest species; promoting an understanding of the adelgid; and encouraging empathetic conversations among all the sustainers of and caregivers for our forests—ecologists and artists, foresters and journalists, naturalists and citizens—while fostering social cohesion around ecological issues.</para> </section> </abstract> <keywordSet> <keyword>disturbance</keyword> <keyword>hemlock</keyword> <keyword>hemlock woolly adelgid</keyword> <keyword>humans</keyword> <keyword>invasive species</keyword> <keywordThesaurus>LTER controlled vocabulary</keywordThesaurus> </keywordSet> <keywordSet> <keyword>disturbance</keyword> <keywordThesaurus>LTER core area</keywordThesaurus> </keywordSet> <keywordSet> <keyword>Harvard Forest</keyword> <keyword>HFR</keyword> <keyword>LTER</keyword> <keyword>USA</keyword> <keywordThesaurus>HFR default</keywordThesaurus> </keywordSet> <intellectualRights> <section> <para>This dataset is released to the public under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 (No Rights Reserved). Please keep the dataset creators informed of any plans to use the dataset. Consultation with the original investigators is strongly encouraged. Publications and data products that make use of the dataset should include proper acknowledgement.</para> </section> </intellectualRights> <licensed> <licenseName>Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal</licenseName> <url>https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html</url> <identifier>CC0-1.0</identifier> </licensed> <distribution> <online> <url function="information">https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf370</url> </online> </distribution> <coverage> <geographicCoverage> <geographicDescription>Prospect Hill Tract (Harvard Forest). 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Collaborators: David Buckley Borden, Aaron Ellison, Salvador Jiménez-Flores, and Salua Rivero.</para> <para>The Exchange Tree was born out of an interest to give viewers an interactive opportunity in response to the Hemlock Hospice experience. The Exchange Tree mirrored the essence of the snapped snags and provided an accessible opportunity for visitors to Hemlock Hospice to pause, reflect on these fallen giants, and leave a message for the hemlock, the adelgid, oneself and others, or for the future forest. The post representing the trunk was left unpainted and the “branches” were painted with federal safety-yellow road paint, the same paint used to blaze trees within the Mega Plot in which the installation was sited. The shared color anchored the work to the site, while providing a needed splash of high-visibility color. In keeping with the forest, the trees, and the snags as objects of research, we left flagging tape and sharpie pens in a marked datalogger box. A brief written prompt on the inside of the box invited visitors to write their responses to the exhibition on a ribbon and tie it to the Exchange Tree. When the Exchange Tree was covered in flagging, we collected the ribbons and transcribed the messages, using "MyName" to indicate when the text on a ribbon was the individual's name (see associated datafile). The original ribbons are in the Harvard Forest Document Archives, file HF2018-02.</para> </section> </description> </methodStep> </methods> <project> <title>Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research Harvard Forest

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(978) 724-3302 (978) 724-3595 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu https://ror.org/059cpzx98 pointOfContact The Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program examines ecological dynamics in the New England region resulting from natural disturbances, environmental change, and human impacts. National Science Foundation LTER grants: DEB-8811764, DEB-9411975, DEB-0080592, DEB-0620443, DEB-1237491, DEB-1832210. hf370-01-hemlock-hospice-ribbons.txt hemlock hospice ribbons hf370-01-hemlock-hospice-ribbons.txt 10239 ba2e679b8ea3cd08784561bcccdd866d none text https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/p37/hf370/hf370-01-hemlock-hospice-ribbons.txt document conservation invasive short-term measurement https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf021 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf053 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf054 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf065 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf081 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf086 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf104 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf107 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf108 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf123 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf154 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf156 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf190 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf191 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf257 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf293 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/hemlock-hospice https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/archives/views/view-item.xql?id=9818