KHC Book Club - Finding The Mother Tree

When

Sat. May. 7th, 2022    
9:00 am - 11:00 am

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  • Hike Leader - Paulette Gendron
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  • Difficulty - Moderate
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Description

Hike and discuss the book, thoughts, reactions, and shared experiences.

Location: Upper Grasslands Community Trail.  Meet at the McQueen Lake Cross country ski parking lot (pull out on side of the road).  You’ve gone too far if you cross the cattle guard before the McQueen Lake turn off.

Finding The Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

Book Cover - Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

Source: https://suzannesimard.com/finding-the-mother-tree-book/

About the Book

In her first book, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths – that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complex, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own.

Simard writes – in inspiring, illuminating, and accessible ways – how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved, how they perceive one another, learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, and remember the past; how they have agency about the future; elicit warnings and mount defenses, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies – and at the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them.

The above is sourced from: https://suzannesimard.com/finding-the-mother-tree-book/

Go to Suzanne’s website here for more interesting videos.

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