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Finding the mother tree : uncovering the wisdom and intelligence of the forest / Suzanne Simard.

Summary:

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; 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. At the centre of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. 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, and how the Mother Tree nurtures the forest in the profound ways that families and human societies do. -- Adapted from jacket of hardcover edition.

Record details

ISBN: 9780141990286
ISBN: 0141990287
Physical Description: 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 20 cm
Publisher: [London] : Penguin Books, 2022.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published in 2021. Published in the U.S. as: Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Connections -- Ghosts in the forest -- Hand fallers -- Parched -- Treed -- Killing soil -- Alder swales -- Bar fight -- Radioactive -- Quid pro quo -- Painting rocks -- Miss Birch -- Nine-hour commute -- Core sampling -- Birthdays -- Passing the wand -- Epilogue: The Mother Tree project.