Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
Dr. Simard uncovers the “Wood Wide Web,” a network that allows trees to share nutrients and information that originate from the Mother Trees. Journey into this massive experiment, from encounters with wildlife to the “aha” moments in a lab, from utilizing this network to promote plant growth to what it can teach us about combatting climate change. This book is not about how we can save the trees, but about how the trees might actually save us.
- Last updated: September 8, 2023
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Available at West Vancouver Memorial Library in Book, Large Print Book, eBook, Kindle, and eAudiobook formats.
CBC Radio interview with the author; 17m1s.
NPR radio interview with the author; 35 minutes.
Discussion questions.
From the author's website.
TEDTalk: How Trees Talk to Each Other; 18m10s.
"Our relationship with the natural world is balanced on a knife-edge, which means our own lives, too, are facing an uncertain future."
About Suzanne Simard and Finding the Mother Tree.
"Trees share. Fast-growing birch send nutrients to slower-moving fir trees. In winter, the goods go in reverse. Birch, shorn of their leaves, receive sugars and carbon from evergreens."