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When The Forest Breaths

Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World

• Suzanne Simard . 2026 . 333.75 SIM . Beaverton Lib

• stopped reading page 48, more judgmental and perjoratives than informative
• many references by chapter, but no footnotes and few direct quotes

• pxi: hand-drawn map of UBC Mother Tree Project sites

• pxiii: Simard's 2021 book Finding the Mother Tree Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

• pxiii: professor of forest ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Stewardship, University of British Columbia
• p018 . "flipping between it's two stable states,¹²C and ¹³C, and it's natural radioactive species,¹⁴C"
  • isotopes are not "states" and don't "flip". ¹²C and ¹³C are stable, ¹⁴C decays to ¹⁴N by emitting a positron, 5700y half life
• p018 . about half of the biomass of a tree is carbon alone

• p018 . glaucous sheath of needles "sage green" light grayish green

• p021 soopolallie astringent

• p021 glittering woodmoss chinking gaps in log walls

• p021 fine fuels small wood pieces, very flammable

• p021 windthrow

• p021 honey mushroom "white rot" root disease

  • includes Humungous fungus in Oregon

• p022 Tallest fraction of trees "dominants", main canopy trees "co-dominants"
• p023 handful of mother trees capture 62% of carbon in forest, dozens of little understory trees 1%

• p027 St. Joseph's Mission, Indigenous children residential school, at least 159 unmarked graves

• p030 student AK Asay Douglas Fir kin recognition 2013 2015 2018 2019 2020

• p036 60% retention treatment retains tallest canopy trees, selectably harvesting some mature neighbors and small trees below ... citation needed
• p038 Degraded forests can't buffer against the "sustained yield" harvest rate.
• p039 "pitch out" insects by excreting a sticky resin - like the big stump from our removed north tree
• p039 "massive disturbances" cause tree species to "decline" ... quantify
• p039 greenhouse gases contributing to climate change ... quantify
• p040 loggers confused by costly instructions to leave "seed trees"
  • how about an educational description or video, not unexplained handwaving?
  • p044 sage "arêtes": a sharp, narrow mountain ridge or spur
• p045 "tree roots connected underground"

  • actually, linked by mycelium, underground network of mycorrhizal fungi

  • Mycorrhizal network

  • "wood wide web"
  • criticised as not strongly strongly supported by evidence

stopped reading page 48, chapter 3

• p086 cruiser vest

  • timber cruise ~ forest survey, quantity of timber