This map, from the Polk County 1974 Comprehensive Plan, shows how the area around Zena remains a product of historical legal constructions, political negotiations, ecological systems, and human imaginations.
Source: University of Oregon Local & Regional Documents Archive.
The 2011 session of the Zena Sustainability Institute, which brings students from Tokyo International University to Zena Farm and Forest at Willamette.
Photo courtesy of Erica Jensen.
Sarah Deumling, neighbor to Zena Forest at Willamette and current owner and manager of Zena Forest.
Photo courtesy of Elise McGlone.
Sarah Deumling, current owner and manager of Zena Forest, with her dog Henry.
Photo courtesy of Lauren Henken.
Student authors out for a field trip with Zena neighbor Anne Walton.
Photo courtesy of Erica Jensen.
Sections 26 and 27--the location of Zena Forest at Willamette--on an 1852 surveyor's map.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
Daffodils in springtime bloom at Zena neighbor Anne Walton's farm.
Photo courtesy of Elise McGlone.
Student authors on a field trip to Zena with Professor Karen Arabas.