The Andrews LTER program is currently in the first year of its sixth funding cycle, “LTER6”. For nearly 30 years our research program has aimed to understand the long-term dynamics of forest and river ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest. The Central Question guiding this research has been and continues to be: How do land use, natural disturbances, and climate change affect three key sets of ecosystem services: carbon and nutrient dynamics, biodiversity, and hydrology? In LTER6 we are approaching our Central Question through new avenues. We are making a special effort to understand how regional-scale variability and change in climate are manifest at the local level, and in particular, to understand our mountainous topography affects interactions among climate variability and climate change, land use and land use change, and ecosystem processes and services. In addition, we are pursuing closer integration of ecological and social sciences, with a particular emphasis on the potential impacts of climate change, interacting with other social factors, on rural communities. Thus, the three research goals for LTER6 are: 1) Understand the influence of complex terrain on ecosystem structure and function, 2) Evaluate potential consequences of change scenarios for climate, land use and disturbance for ecosystem states, processes and services, and 3) Intensify integration among the Andrews Forest science program, the social sciences, and society to more fully embrace the coupled, adaptive natural and human system of our region.  Our program has many other dimensions.  We have always maintained close ties between research and management; in LTER6 we are strengthening these ties. To enhance our education and outreach programs, our Schoolyard LTER program is directly involving teachers and students in our research activities, bringing the classroom to the field, and the field to the classroom, and we are forging ties with statewide forestry extension activities. An additional new direction is to enhance significantly our cyberinfrastructure, developing a concept of Andrews as a “Cyber-Forest”. Finally, over the past several years, the environmental humanities program at the Andrews has emerged from being a “diamond in the rough” and is becoming a crown jewel of our program. We will continue to nurture and honor this facet of our program.