Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

- Last updated: July 30, 2021
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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."