[Anne Elk]

Wasn't sure whether to post this here or in the Saloon. A fascinating NPR Fresh Air interview: Trees Talk to Each Other Obligate fungal relationships and chemical signalling ... pretty interesting stuff. The interviewee, Dr. Simard, is "local" (Nelson, BC, teaches at UBC). Her professional trajectory (starting out in the woods as a logging company employee) is interesting, too. Her book. It would be great if her discoveries could be incorporated into forest management practice.

[timberghost]

Renewable resource!!

[moonspots]

[timberghost]

There are benefits to clear cutting when done in a controlled manner.

[brineal]

[Goats Know]

Thanks for sharing this Anne! Interesting program. I am definitely going to buy her book. I believe Dr. Simard was the inspiration for one of the characters in Richard Powers novel "The Overstory". If you read the book the similarities are obvious.

[Kim Brown]

I haven't listed to the podcast yet, but checked out the book reviews on Amazon. She has some impressive reviewers, including Robin Wall Kimmerer (she is so wonderful!). People have been hammering industry for decades; soils matter; hydrology, bugs, fungus, lichen, interruption of wind pattern - everything has to do with everything else. It seems to have been an enlightenment in the last several decades, yet the concept was known for thousands of years - but we had forgotten. Thoughtful, private landowners have lots of resources; conservation easements, and the Forest and Fish program, for instance. More and more of them are learning and doing. Thanks for the links!