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Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest
First edition.
Simard, S. (Suzanne), author.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,
Pub date: 2021.
Pages: [xi], 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates:
ISBN: 9780525656098
1 copy available at The King's University Library.
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Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest First edition.
    Simard, S. (Suzanne), author.
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Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest First edition.
    Simard, S. (Suzanne), author.
Personal Author: Simard, S. (Suzanne), author.
Title: Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest / Suzanne Simard.
Edition: First edition.
Publication: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Copyright date: ©2021
Physical description: [xi], 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Content type: text txt
Content type: still image sti
Media type: unmediated n
Carrier type: volume nc
Personal subject: Simard, S. (Suzanne)
Subject term: Forest conservation.
Subject term: Trees--Conservation.
Subject term: Forest regeneration.
Subject term: Conservationists--United States--Biography.
Subject term: Women conservationists--United States--Biography.
Subject term: Forêts--Conservation.
Subject term: Arbres--Conservation.
Subject term: Régénération (Sylviculture)
Subject term: Femmes écologistes (Défenseuses de l'environnement)--États-Unis--Biographies.
Genre index term: Biography.
Genre index term: Autobiography
Genre index term: Biography
General Note: "This is a Borzoi book" -- title page verso.
Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index.
Contents: 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.
Summary: From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and other living things in the forest--a moving, inspiring journey of discovery. Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communciation and intelligence; she's been compared to Rachel Carson, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls from James Cameron's Avatar), and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. Now, in her first book, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illluminates 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. Simard describes up close--in revealing and accessible ways--how trees, lving side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved; how they perceive one another, learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, and remember the past; how they have agency about their future; how they elicit warnings and mount defenses, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication: characteristics previously ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies. And, at the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. Simard, born and raised in the rain forests of British Columbia, spent her days as a child cataloging the trees from the forest; she came to love and respect them and embarked on a journey of discovery and struggle. Her powerful story is one of love and loss, of observation and change, of risk and reward. And it is a testament to how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology; it's about understanding who we are and our place in the world. In her book, as in her groundbreaking research, Simard proves the true connectedness of the Mother Tree to the forest, nurturing it in the profound ways that families and human societies nurture one another, and how these inseperable bonds enable all our survival. --
ISBN: 9780525656098 hardcover
ISBN: 052565609X hardcover
ISBN: (ISBN invalid)9780525656104 electronic book
ISBN: 9780525565994 paperback
ISBN: 052556599X
Standard identifier#: 40030520688
key: 9889467
LCCN: 2020029993