Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast.

I'm Emmanuel Vaughn Lee, executive editor of Emergence Magazine,

located on the unseated ancestral lands of the Coast Meawak people of present-day,

Marin County.

Each week, we feature a new interview, narrated essay, or story, exploring the threads connecting

ecology, culture, and spirituality.

We often conceptualize forests as constant.

Inert amid the frenzy and flux of the biota, they are often seen as the anchors around which ecosystems revolve.

However, looking at these landscapes through the lens of deep time,

we can begin to see that they are in fact deeply motionful.

Slowly, across the expanse of millennia, trees move up, down, and across continents in response to changes in topography, water, climate, and threats.

Migration being a primary means of adaptation within the larger shifting Earth.

Yet as a rapidly warming climate overlaps with the consequences of past and present land management.

Tree's ability to move effectively is diminishing.

What does it mean when an ecosystem that has been dynamic, mobile, and adaptable since time

and memorial suddenly finds its pathways of movement altered?

This week, we've adapted the interactive multimedia feature.

They carry us with them, the great tree migration for our podcast.

With writing by Chelsea Steinerour Scudder, this story delves into changing patterns of tree migration in Maine,

tracing the threats faced by the Black Ash Forest.

As she follows two Wabanaki Black Ash basket makers grappling with the arrival of an invasive beetle,

Chelsea asks, what is at stake as these forests struggle, change, and depart in their search

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