| TITLE: |
Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest / Suzanne Simard. |
| AUTHOR: |
Simard, S. Suzanne), author. |
| PUBLISHED: |
New York : Vintage Books, 2022. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
[xi], 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. |
| EDITION: |
First edition. |
| NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-332) and index. |
| NOTES: |
Introduction: Connections -- Ghosts in the forest -- Hand fallers -- Parched -- Treed -- Killing soil -- Alder swales -- Bar fight -- Radioactive -- |
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Quid pro quo -- Painting rocks -- Miss Birch -- Nine-hour commute -- Core sampling -- Birthdays --Passing the wand |
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Epilogue: The Mother Tree project. |
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"A personal and scientific work on trees, forests, and the author's profound discoveries of tree communication"-- |c Provided by publisher. |
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Simard illuminates the fascinating and vital truths: that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; |
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that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. |
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At the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. |
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Born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia, Simard writes of her own journey of understanding who we are and our place in the world, |
| NOTES: |
and how the Mother Tree nurtures the forest in the profound ways that families and human societies do. -- adapted from jacket |
| SUBJECT: |
Simard, S. (Suzanne) |
| SUBJECT: |
Forest conservation. |
| SUBJECT: |
Trees --Conservation. |
| SUBJECT: |
Forest regeneration. |
| SUBJECT: |
Conservationists |z --United States |v --Biography. |
| SUBJECT: |
Women conservationists --United States --Biography. |
| SUBJECT: |
Conservationists. |
| SUBJECT: |
Women conservationists |
| SUBJECT: |
United States. |
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