This is But Why, a broadcast for curious kids.

I'm Jane Lentholm.

We're now eight weeks this spring.

We're bringing our podcast to the airwaves for live radio shows in collaboration with

Vermont's agency of education.

The idea is to offer you kids who are out of school a chance for your own call-in radio

show.

And if you live in Vermont and surrounding areas, you don't even need the internet at all.

You can just call in to the show.

Now I know some of you are already out of school, but I hope you'll stick with us for the next

few weeks because we have some really fantastic shows planned for you.

And we know you're going to want to call in and get some answers to your questions.

Including today, we're going to be talking about trees.

Now I have to warn you, I think it's safe to say that there are hundreds of you who have

sent us or are trying to send us now questions about trees.

So we probably won't be able to get to all of them unless our guests talk very fast.

But I think you're going to find some very interesting information in this hour, even if we aren't

able to answer your awesome question.

In fact, the idea that you might learn something new and cool about trees is part of why we've

invited these specific guests here today.

Alexia Constantino and Katie McMahon both work at the Samard Lab at the University of

British Columbia in Canada.

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