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Suzanne Simard: Mother Trees and the Social Forest

Long Now

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Are There Solutions to Changing the Value of Our Forests?

The expansion of Bachela Nana across the Arctic is not necessarily a good thing because it accelerates the warming. "We need to adjust our economic expectations from the forests and actually value it for more than just two by fours," he says. Are there new technologies that would allow more selective harvesting or other ways to do this other than just making it more expensive?

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