.http://wiki.keithl.com/ForestBreaths === When The Forest Breaths === ==== Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World ==== . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Simard | 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 [[ https://mothertreeproject.org/ | UBC Mother Tree Project ]] sites . pxiii: [[ https://suzannesimard.com/ | Simard's ]] 2021 book [[ https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3884019| 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 . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucous | glaucous ]] sheath of needles "sage green" light grayish green . p021 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherdia_canadensis | soopolallie ]] astringent . p021 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylocomium_splendens | glittering woodmoss ]] chinking gaps in log walls . p021 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Forest_Fire_Weather_Index_System | fine fuels ]] small wood pieces, very flammable . p021 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windthrow | windthrow ]] . p021 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria | honey mushroom ]] "white rot" root disease . includes [[ https://www.abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRepublish_828525.htm | 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 [[ https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/number-potential-unmarked-graves-st-josephs-mission-rises-159 | St. Joseph's Mission ]], Indigenous children residential school, at least 159 unmarked graves . p030 student AK Asay Douglas Fir kin recognition [[ https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/nph.14325 | 2013 ]] [[ https://academic.oup.com/aobpla/article/doi/10.1093/aobpla/plv050/201398?trk=public_post_comment-text | 2015 ]] [[ https://boomwachtersgroningen.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Simard2018_Chapter_MycorrhizalNetworksFacilitateT-1.pdf | 2018 ]] [[ https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/download/pdf/24/1.0387438/3 | 2019 ]] [[ https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2020.578524/pdf | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myceliumtps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycelium | mycelium ]], underground network of [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza | mycorrhizal fungi ]] . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhizal_network | Mycorrhizal network ]] . "wood wide web" . criticised as not strongly strongly supported by evidence stopped reading page 48, chapter 3 . p086 [[ https://www.forestry-suppliers.com/c/cruiser-vests/7-66-390?page=1 | cruiser vest ]] . [[ https://churchandchurchlumber.com/blog/what-is-a-timber-cruise| timber cruise ]] ~ forest survey, quantity of timber