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From KQED.

From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. Coming up on Forum, for his new book, Daniel Lewis homed in on just 12 of the more than 70,000 tree species out there.

And some of Lewis's trees can be found in California, from our coastal redwoods to, yes, our non-native bluegum eucalyptus.

Our intersections with these 12 trees' lives, he writes,

are far more interesting and more complicated than people would ever expect.

We'll find out why Lewis sees these trees as telling us something significant

about the messy nature of evolution or about strategies to survive a changing climate.

What trees are meaningful to you? Send us your

tree mails. After this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. We all know trees that grew up with us

as children, writes my guest, Daniel Lewis, trees we hid under for shelter

in the rain or in baking heat, trees that sat outside our houses and marked the seasons, losing foliage

and growing back, or extending a limb to the windowsill so we could risk climbing down to a wider,

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