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Finding the Mother Tree: A Conversation with Suzanne Simard This May 19 webinar will celebrate an important new book and the wisdom of the forest. Register now. Sierra Club BC 10 May 2021 | TheTyee.ca SHARES Image courtesy of Brendan Ko and Sierra Club BC. This article is part of a Tyee Presents initiative. Tyee Presents is the special sponsored content section within The Tyee where we highlight contests, events and other initiatives that are either put on by us or by our select partners. The Tyee does not and cannot vouch for or endorse products advertised on The Tyee. We choose ...

Suzanne Simard Changed How the World Sees Trees The pathbreaking ecologist on interspecies collaboration, tree sentience, and nature’s resilience. Photo: Diana Markosian Suzanne Simard has given her life to the study of trees. She sweated for them. Bled for them. Damn near died for them — once at the claws of a grizzly, and once from the invisible clutch of cancer. (Working with toxic herbicides and radioactive isotopes in the course of her research likely contributed to her breast cancer, which resulted in a double mastectomy.) But Simard’s sacrifices as a forest ecolo...