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FOREST ECOLOGIST
Most people look at a forest and see trees reaching for the sky. Suzanne Simard sees trees holding hands underground.
Simard is a well-known forest ecologist—a scientist studying forest patterns and relationships. She works at the University of British Columbia in Canada and is the author of the bestselling book Finding the Mother Tree.
With her research, Simard has followed tree roots to an astounding new possible discovery, that trees share and communicate through an underground network. Her science inspired the Tree of Souls in the movie Avatar and has forever changed the way we think about forests.
CAN YOU TAKE US ON A WALK-THROUGH A FAVORITE FOREST?
When you walk through a forest, usually you follow a trail. But if
