Suzanne Simard on the social networks of trees
Normal text size Very large text size As a child, Suzanne Simard often roamed Canadaâs old-growth forests with her siblings, building forts from fallen branches, foraging mushrooms and huckleberries and occasionally eating handfuls of dirt (she liked the taste). Her grandfather and uncles, meanwhile, worked nearby as horse loggers, using low-impact methods to selectively harvest cedar, Douglas fir and white pine. They took so few trees that Simard never noticed much of a difference. The forest seemed ageless and infinite, pillared with conifers, jewelled with raindrops and brimming with ...
Source: smh.com.au