![]() When she began attending the University of British Columbia, she was elated to discover forestry: an entire field of science devoted to her beloved domain. She experienced it as “nature in the raw” - a mythic realm, perfect as it was. The forest seemed ageless and infinite, pillared with conifers, jeweled with raindrops and brimming with ferns and fairy bells. ![]() They took so few trees that Simard never noticed much of a difference. Her grandfather and uncles, meanwhile, worked nearby as horse loggers, using low-impact methods to selectively harvest cedar, Douglas fir and white pine. What are they sharing with one another?īy Ferris Jabr Photographs by Brendan George KoĪs a child, Suzanne Simard often roamed Canada’s 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). ![]() ![]() Trees appear to communicate and cooperate through subterranean networks of fungi. ![]()
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