Harvard Forest

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HF370

Hemlock Hospice Sculpture Installation at Harvard Forest 2018-2019

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Overview

• Lead: David Buckley Borden, Aaron Ellison
• Investigators: Salua Rivero
• Contact: Information Manager
• Start date: 2018
• End date: 2019
• Status: complete
• Location: Prospect Hill Tract (Harvard Forest)
• Latitude: +42.539 degrees
• Longitude: -72.180 degrees
• Elevation: 355 meter
• Datum: WGS84
• Taxa: Acer rubrum, Adelges tsugae, Betula lenta, Tsuga canadensis
• Release date: 2023
• Language: English
• EML file: knb-lter-hfr.370.5
• DOI: digital object identifier
• EDI: data package
• DataONE: data package
• Related links:
• Stand and Community Response to Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in Southern New England since 1995
• Hemlock History Plots at Harvard Forest since 1995
• Community and Ecosystem Impacts in Hemlock Removal Experiment at Harvard Forest since 2003
• Structure of Ant Communities in Declining Hemlock Stands at Harvard Forest 2003
• Landscape Response to Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in Southern New England 1997-2011
• Dendrochronological Record in Hemlock Removal Experiment at Harvard Forest 2004-2006
• Adult Population Survey of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in Massachusetts 2003-2005
• Light Environment in Hemlock Removal Experiment at Harvard Forest since 2004
• Air and Soil Temperature in Hemlock Removal Experiment at Harvard Forest since 2004
• Canopy LiDAR Measurements in Hemlock Removal Experiment at Harvard Forest 2005
• Tree Growth in Hemlock and Deciduous Forests at Harvard Forest HEM and LPH Towers 2000-2005
• Sapwood Temperatures in Hemlock Trees at Harvard Forest HEM Tower 1997-1998
• Modeling Range Expansion of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in Eastern North America 1951-2009
• Regional Distribution and Abundance of Eastern Hemlock in Eastern North America 2010
• Long-Term Impacts of the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid on Forest Carbon at Harvard Forest 2008-2011
• Soil Carbon in a Hemlock Stand Infected by Hemlock Woolly Adelgid at Harvard Forest since 2015
• Hemlock Hospice: Art/Science Installation and Exhibition
• Hemlock Hospice Exchange Tree
• Study type: short-term measurement
• Research topic: conservation and management; invasive plants, pests and pathogens
• LTER core area: disturbance patterns
• Keywords: disturbance, hemlock, hemlock woolly adelgid, humans, invasive species
• Abstract:

  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.

• Methods:

  Exchange Tree, installation at Harvard Forest, 8 x 10 x 12.5 feet, wood, and acrylic paint, 2017. Collaborators: David Buckley Borden, Aaron Ellison, Salvador Jiménez-Flores, and Salua Rivero.

  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.

• Organization: Harvard Forest. 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA 01366, USA. Phone (978) 724-3302. Fax (978) 724-3595.

• Project: 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. (ROR).

• Funding: National Science Foundation LTER grants: DEB-8811764, DEB-9411975, DEB-0080592, DEB-0620443, DEB-1237491, DEB-1832210.

• Use: 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.

• License: Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (CC0-1.0)

• Citation: Buckley Borden D, Ellison A. 2023. Hemlock Hospice Sculpture Installation at Harvard Forest 2018-2019. Harvard Forest Data Archive: HF370 (v.5). Environmental Data Initiative: https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/7a99ca939b8039a382159a67fab94dec.

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