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What if a forest isn’t a collection of trees, but a living community with its own underground “internet”?
In Finding the Mother Tree, renowned forest ecologist Suzanne Simard reveals the invisible fungal networks that link trees together—allowing them to share water, carbon, and nutrients, warn each other of danger, and even “favor” their own seedlings. Through decades of fieldwork (and plenty of pushback from conventional forestry), Simard uncovers the role of “Mother Trees”: the oldest, largest hubs that quietly keep forests resilient, especially after clear-cuts, drought, and disease.
Part scientific detective story, part memoir, this is a mind-shifting look at nature as cooperation—not competition—and a reminder that humans are woven into the same web.
Read the full summary to see how the wood-wide web changes everything.
