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
- "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