It was an honour to be able to attend this. I feel incredibly fortunate to have had Dr. Simard as my ecology professor just last year. Initially, I was certain I would do my undergraduate in forest genetics and plant biology. Because of her, I am now unsure which of the two I should focus my undergraduate degree on...
I wish that the citizens that are defending the old growth on the Island could get the support of people like yourselves. They need the science that would give influence to their efforts. Currently, they are out in the woods trying to stop the clear cutting in Ma'amtagila territory north of Campbell River near the Adam and Eve Rivers.
Suzanne's work is great. Unfortunately, the UBC Faculty of Forestry keeps talking about 'managing' forests. They are not getting that forests cannot be managed. They are bent on transforming natural forests into tree plantations and seem to assume that they can somehow use Simard's work to continue to make that happen but make it sound like they are doing things in an ecologically responsible manner. As long as 'professional' foresters in BC continue to clearcut primary forests, they are destroying our forests - humans cannot grow forests. Climate change makes tree plantations an even worse model than it has always been. Many rooms at the Faculty are named after forest product corporations. The corporate industrial model continues to rule over forests in BC and the teachings of the Faculty. Until the whole forestry system in BC is changed so that its priority is ecological integrity (instead of timber/fibre production), we will all lose out and Simard's work is all for naught. "We could do better" is a commonly used phrase amongst Ministry of Forests employees and it is meaningless. All foresters, including Simard, have to stop saying that and instead state clearly and specifically what must be done to protect our forests from climate change. Its your future too, UBC.
I like the defiintion of management as supporting the enhancement of the health and abundance of biodiversity, more positive involvement instead of just destructive, money making involvement.
...Hear Hear to this!! ... Unfortunately Susan is working for the Wrong side , and is corrupted by their money ...Even though Her heart might be in the right place ... Last Summer's Heat waves and fires show us how far down the wrong roads we have gone !!!
Living in a city, I wonder if our solitary street and lawn trees are struggling. If there is no room for groups of trees and other plants, What can we do to help them?
This was fascinating and I'm grateful I came across it. I wonder have you done any research on the mycorrhizal network in regards to allelopaths and their neighbors? Is it related to the distinctions found in the cedar/hemlock/maple stands Dr. Simard discussed? Thank you again so much for your great efforts!
If someone is having no background of plant study but willing to do systematic research out of self interest, is there any university or organization which can help with methodology of research on "how plant communicate"
My knowledge of natural sciences is inadequate, but this project and Suzanne’s work seems an important start of interdisciplinary impacts. I assume human science with its specialized disciplines cannot simply connect between ecology, biology, ethology, ethno-ecology and environmental sciences. Suzanne seems to work in the intersectionality which is a tricky workplace which comes with its limitations. I do wonder whether AI and quantum computers can further intersectionality in order for humans to grasp better assessments of relations between soil, mycelia, plants, animals and weather in order to create way more sensitive city and forest planning. I do know that it is found problematic how local actors are reified: native cultural perception is reduced to typical tropes. Peoples are generalized as close to nature, as noble wilds put on a pedestal; a pressuring standard humans cannot live up to, which in turn possibly damages the argumentations. Also, their knowledge systems are simplified as if within an absolute full grasp of western understanding and as templates that lack nuance and are vulnerable to appropriation and to miscommunication. At least, these are the semiotics that can be picked up via some of the other videos of lectures. Perhaps in the scientific papers, such representations are more complex. Anyway, I’m very happy this project exists and am slightly becoming obsessed with it. I hope to deepen my understanding along the way. Thank you all.
Summary: 🌲Grow forests to adapt to climate change and increasing temp. 🌲use more friendly machines that dont destroy the ground under the trees when they are taken out. 🌲 Bring in some new species from warmer climates that are already adapted to warmer times. 🌲 Keep the mother trees and some older trees when re-planting. 🌲 Grow different species together. They will be happier, better nourished and grow better. Biodiversity will 🌱⬆️ 💚💚🌲🌲💪
Hey , how many trees are in Canada ,, please don’t lump all of Canada in your talks ,, Canada is a second largest in the world as you know ,, your opinion on Vancouver island is way different then the rest of the country ,, have you been to Manitoba lately ? We don’t have a logging industry to speak of,, what about Saskatchewan? What about NW Ontario ? Northern Ontario ? One brush does not paint the whole picture .. I known some of Albertas logging ,,I dont know about BC s ,,, I love some of what you say ,, liberals will find any way to tax this industry ,,, just for their greed ,, as you know Canada’s land mass with the trees included ,, absorb 35-45% of the worlds carbon .. we have to protect it yes ,,, people will take some of what you say out of context,,, please define your subject by area ,,, not all of Canada..... how many weeks have you spent out side the island ? How much time in the rest of BC? Alberta ? Saskatchewan? Manitoba .? 800 million sq km of Ontario ? Quebec ? I am totally against cutting old growth forests ,, yes ,, if we have issues in Manitoba I would appreciate your input ,, to help my region ,,, thanks ,,
Yeah, or maybe "Sister Tree" or "Cuzzin' Tree" - that has a really nice _jingle_ to it. Anything (else): as long as it doesn't injure or offend the wounded sensibilities of the Fragile Ego of the Modern-Day Men. - j q t -
It was an honour to be able to attend this. I feel incredibly fortunate to have had Dr. Simard as my ecology professor just last year. Initially, I was certain I would do my undergraduate in forest genetics and plant biology. Because of her, I am now unsure which of the two I should focus my undergraduate degree on...
Would be great to see Suzanne Simard and maybe Paul Stamets win the Nobel prize for Biology.
I think Denis Noble, Oxford physiologist professor, should get the Nobel Prize in biology also.
Thank you !! Thank you !! Thank you Suzanne!! For this wonderful news on are beautiful forest trees!! Thank you!!
I wish that the citizens that are defending the old growth on the Island could get the support of people like yourselves. They need the science that would give influence to their efforts. Currently, they are out in the woods trying to stop the clear cutting in Ma'amtagila territory north of Campbell River near the Adam and Eve Rivers.
Suzanne's work is great. Unfortunately, the UBC Faculty of Forestry keeps talking about 'managing' forests. They are not getting that forests cannot be managed. They are bent on transforming natural forests into tree plantations and seem to assume that they can somehow use Simard's work to continue to make that happen but make it sound like they are doing things in an ecologically responsible manner. As long as 'professional' foresters in BC continue to clearcut primary forests, they are destroying our forests - humans cannot grow forests. Climate change makes tree plantations an even worse model than it has always been. Many rooms at the Faculty are named after forest product corporations. The corporate industrial model continues to rule over forests in BC and the teachings of the Faculty. Until the whole forestry system in BC is changed so that its priority is ecological integrity (instead of timber/fibre production), we will all lose out and Simard's work is all for naught. "We could do better" is a commonly used phrase amongst Ministry of Forests employees and it is meaningless. All foresters, including Simard, have to stop saying that and instead state clearly and specifically what must be done to protect our forests from climate change. Its your future too, UBC.
I like the defiintion of management as supporting the enhancement of the health and abundance of biodiversity, more positive involvement instead of just destructive, money making involvement.
...Hear Hear to this!! ... Unfortunately Susan is working for the Wrong side , and is corrupted by their money ...Even though Her heart might be in the right place ... Last Summer's Heat waves and fires show us how far down the wrong roads we have gone !!!
Amazing .. thanks and regards from Saudi Arabia kingdom.
I love listening to humans talking about my species^^
Thank you so much for the lecture!
Living in a city, I wonder if our solitary street and lawn trees are struggling. If there is no room for groups of trees and other plants, What can we do to help them?
This was fascinating and I'm grateful I came across it. I wonder have you done any research on the mycorrhizal network in regards to allelopaths and their neighbors? Is it related to the distinctions found in the cedar/hemlock/maple stands Dr. Simard discussed? Thank you again so much for your great efforts!
If someone is having no background of plant study but willing to do systematic research out of self interest, is there any university or organization which can help with methodology of research on "how plant communicate"
My knowledge of natural sciences is inadequate, but this project and Suzanne’s work seems an important start of interdisciplinary impacts. I assume human science with its specialized disciplines cannot simply connect between ecology, biology, ethology, ethno-ecology and environmental sciences. Suzanne seems to work in the intersectionality which is a tricky workplace which comes with its limitations. I do wonder whether AI and quantum computers can further intersectionality in order for humans to grasp better assessments of relations between soil, mycelia, plants, animals and weather in order to create way more sensitive city and forest planning. I do know that it is found problematic how local actors are reified: native cultural perception is reduced to typical tropes. Peoples are generalized as close to nature, as noble wilds put on a pedestal; a pressuring standard humans cannot live up to, which in turn possibly damages the argumentations. Also, their knowledge systems are simplified as if within an absolute full grasp of western understanding and as templates that lack nuance and are vulnerable to appropriation and to miscommunication. At least, these are the semiotics that can be picked up via some of the other videos of lectures. Perhaps in the scientific papers, such representations are more complex. Anyway, I’m very happy this project exists and am slightly becoming obsessed with it. I hope to deepen my understanding along the way. Thank you all.
Hello Humans^^
nice video^^
Summary:
🌲Grow forests to adapt to climate change and increasing temp.
🌲use more friendly machines that dont destroy the ground under the trees when they are taken out.
🌲 Bring in some new species from warmer climates that are already adapted to warmer times.
🌲 Keep the mother trees and some older trees when re-planting.
🌲 Grow different species together. They will be happier, better nourished and grow better. Biodiversity will 🌱⬆️
💚💚🌲🌲💪
♡
Hey , how many trees are in Canada ,, please don’t lump all of Canada in your talks ,, Canada is a second largest in the world as you know ,, your opinion on Vancouver island is way different then the rest of the country ,, have you been to Manitoba lately ? We don’t have a logging industry to speak of,, what about Saskatchewan? What about NW Ontario ? Northern Ontario ? One brush does not paint the whole picture .. I known some of Albertas logging ,,I dont know about BC s ,,, I love some of what you say ,, liberals will find any way to tax this industry ,,, just for their greed ,, as you know Canada’s land mass with the trees included ,, absorb 35-45% of the worlds carbon .. we have to protect it yes ,,, people will take some of what you say out of context,,, please define your subject by area ,,, not all of Canada..... how many weeks have you spent out side the island ? How much time in the rest of BC? Alberta ? Saskatchewan? Manitoba .?
800 million sq km of Ontario ? Quebec ? I am totally against cutting old growth forests ,, yes ,, if we have issues in Manitoba I would appreciate your input ,, to help my region ,,, thanks ,,
should a non- sexist (antrhopocentric) language "MOTHER" tree be developed? Why put our own human problems onto the forests?
Мама + папа = я
Nature can not be sexist. Please change yourself first to accept Mother Nature.
... "Ancestral" Trees ! ...
Couldn't we have called them Father Trees? I mean, the matriarchy is just out of control here.
Yeah, or maybe "Sister Tree" or "Cuzzin' Tree" - that has a really nice _jingle_ to it. Anything (else): as long as it doesn't injure or offend the wounded sensibilities of the Fragile Ego of the Modern-Day Men. - j q t -
This is what you take away