One of our HGCNY goals in supporting the Baltimore Woods Forest Project is to help us learn:
- what is a healthy forest, and
- the many benefits of a healthy forest, locally and for the planet.
Resources
- NY Flora Asso.:
- iTree from SUNY ESF (and others)
- NY Audubon:
- Healthy forests – why they’re essential for birds and people
- Forest resource center – Resources for foresters and landsowners
- Crowther Lab:
- VIDEO: Why and how should we protect soil microbial communities – 4 min.
- NPR:
- Ecological Landscape Alliance:
- Finding Mother Earth by Suzanne Simard
- Full-length documentaries
- VIDEO: Intelligent Trees – The Documentary Suzanne Simard and Peter Wohlleben
- The Hidden Life of Trees documentary – based on Wohlleben’s best-selling book
- NY Times Critic’s Pick Review of The Hidden Life of Trees documentary
- TED Talks:
- VIDEO: How to harness the ancient partnership between fungi and forests
- VIDEO: How trees talk to each other by Suzanne Simard
- VIDEO: TED-Ed: The secret language of trees by Camille Defreene and Simard
- VIDEO: Nature’s internet: How trees talk to each other by Suzanne Simard
- VIDEO: An engineer’s vision for tiny forests, everywhere
- VIDEO: How to grow a forest in your backyard
- Talks at Google:
- VIDEO: Finding the mother tree by Suzanne Simard
- Mother Tree Project:
- BBC: