William Bryant Logan’s book Sproutlands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees opens the door to a little known history, in which people all over the world, from Norway to Japan to pre-Colonial California, managed trees in a way that was beneficial to trees and humans alike. Logan stumbled upon this history after taking on a…
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Meg Lowman knows more about trees than most people on this planet. She invented canopy ecology – the practice of studying trees in the treetops – and has worked across 46 countries and 7 continents, designing hot air balloons and walkways and other ways to explore and study this diverse biosphere. In our fourth episode…
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To find out how a warming planet might affect the forests in my home state of New York, I visit Black Rock Forest, a research station in the Hudson Highlands, and talk to Andy Reinmann, Assistant Professor in the Environmental Sciences Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center of the Graduate Center, CUNY and in…
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