308) Suzanne Simard: Honoring the wisdom of mother trees and old-growth forests
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean for the world of conservation to see forest ecosystems as complex, sentient, and intelligent? How have the reductive tools of Western science been limiting in our abilities to fully understand the relationships within forests—as well as our human relationships with them?
In this episode, we are honored to welcome Suzanne Simard Ph.D., who was born in the Monashee Mountains of British Columbia and educated at the University of British Columbia and Oregon State University. She is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Forestry, and her research has demonstrated that complex, symbiotic networks in our forests mimic our own neural and social networks.
Suzanne has thirty years of experience studying the forests of Canada and is the author of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest.
Song featured in this episode: The Fading by Joan Shelley
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