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  • Thursday, September 25, 6:30 pm – The Trees Are Speaking

    Join The Acton Conservation Trust on September 25 for a Book Talk with Lynda Mapes, author of The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests. More information and registration on our website: www.ActonConservationTrust.org

    Lynda V. Mapes, award-winning environmental journalist for the Seattle Times, was inspired to write The Trees Are Speaking after exploring the richness of old growth forests in the Northwest U.S. and Canada. But she also came face to face with the widespread destruction of these forests. Mapes writes, “The book therefore became a witness not only to the incredible ecological and cultural values of these forests but to the connected history of their loss, beginning on the East Coast in Maine and repeated across the United States and continuing over the border into Canada, even today.”

    Mapes also outlines the resilience of nature, the insights and perseverance of First Nations people who have raised their voices to protect and renew ecosystems, understandings of our inter-relatedness uncovered by scientists, and even new approaches to commercial forestry.

  • Friday, May 5, 6:00 pm – Witness Tree: A Year in the Forest

    Lynda Mapes, 2014-2015 Bullard Fellow in Forest Research, Harvard Forest, and Staff Reporter, The Seattle Times, will appear at the Arnold Arboretum on Friday, May 5 beginning at 6 pm in the Hunnewell Building for a reception, reading, and book signing.

    Ever wonder about the inside of a tree or how a tree functions? Or, what a single tree can tell us about climate? Reporter Lynda Mapes spent a year embedded with scientists at the Harvard Forest to explore a single, 100-year old oak, from the symbiotic relationships in and around its roots and branches to the daily and seasonal changes of the canopy. Hear Lynda speak about her experience studying a rooted tree for a year and how this specimen is one of many in the remarkable, six-state recovery of forests that is underway on former farmland throughout New England. Her book, Witness Tree, will be available for purchase and signing. Free, registration requested at my.arboretum.harvard.edu or call 617-384-5277.