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  title info:
    title: When the forest breathes
    sub title: renewal and resilience in the natural world
  name:
    name part: Simard, S. (Suzanne)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Autobiographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2026
    edition: First hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: xiv, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
  abstract: "The trailblazing scientist who pioneered the concept of sophisticated communication between trees returns with a book that, drawing on rigorous science and neglected indigenous wisdom, places nature's own cycles of renewal at the center of a powerful vision for the future of our forests. With her bestselling book Finding the Mother Tree, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard advanced a revelatory new paradigm for the profound intelligence and interconnectedness of trees. Now, with When the Forest Breathes, she uncovers the ways that nature's deep-rooted cycles of renewal can ensure the longevity of threatened ecosystems. Raised in a family of loggers committed to sensible forest stewardship, Simard has watched timber companies plunder the forest for profit, leaving in their wake an ecosystem at higher risk for wildfire, water crises, and plant and animal extinction. But her research has the potential to chart a new course. The forest, she reveals, is a symphony of finely honed cycles of regeneration-from mushrooms breaking down logs to dying elder trees passing their genetic knowledge to younger ones-that hold the key to protecting our forests from the threats of logging and climate change. Leading one of the most ambitious climate research initiatives ever undertaken, Simard examines how human interventions-particularly loggers' destruction of the overstory's mother trees-affect new growth in her native British Columbia. Working closely with local Indigenous communities, whose models of responsible forestry have been largely dismissed, she unearths groundbreaking findings that, if implemented, could ensure the survival of these ecosystems for generations to come. As she considers how older living things facilitate the conditions for new growth to flourish, Simard faces parallel rhythms of loss and regeneration in her own life, watching her two daughters grow into young women and savoring her final days with her ailing mother. Animated by wonder and hope for our planet's…
  table of contents: Introduction : when the forest breathes -- Can't get away from your roots -- Kinship -- Planting season -- Killer forests -- Gardens in the forest -- The miracle of yew -- Sister cedars -- Carbon bomb -- Place matters -- Reciprocity -- The forest defenders -- The first ecologists -- In the arc of a turn -- Trees in our blood -- Back to the garden -- Conclusion : finding our way forward.
  target audience: adult
  note: Suzanne Simard.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-292).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn-bc
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Simard, S. (Suzanne)
  subject:
    topic: Women conservationists
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Forest conservation
    geographic: British Columbia
  subject:
    topic: Trees
    topic: Conservation
    geographic: British Columbia
  subject:
    topic: Forest regeneration
    geographic: British Columbia
  subject:
    topic: Femmes écologistes (Défenseuses de l'environnement)
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Forêts
    topic: Conservation
    geographic: Colombie-Britannique
  subject:
    topic: Arbres
    topic: Conservation
    geographic: Colombie-Britannique
  subject:
    topic: Régénération (Sylviculture)
    geographic: Colombie-Britannique
  classification: SD411.52.S56 A3 2026
  classification: 333.75/16092 B
  identifier: 9780593318683
  identifier: 0593318684
  identifier: 9780593318690
  identifier: 2025027030
  record info:
    record content source: LBSOR
    record creation date: 260110
    record change date: 20260413181813.2
    record identifier: in00005777997
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng