Connected (Waterloo, Ontario)
Right in front of me, in the middle of the bush, a grove of 20-30 trees .… all dead. Their shape told me that they were probably spruce trees, but I could not find any needles or bark samples to verify my suspicion.
The trees were surrounded by a healthy, normal-looking forest. What could have happened to them? Disease? Too much or too little water? Poor soil conditions? Another type of trauma? I had many guesses, but no answers.
As I stood there trying to make sense of the scene in front of me, my gaze and thoughts focused on the branches emanating from the trunks of the trees. I began to see them as, perhaps, some sort of antenna system reaching out from one tree to the next, forming a communication network throughout the tree community.
Scientific studies point out that forest trees are able to work together to grow and flourish by communicating with each other through the soil and the air in various ways. My eyes told me, that whatever the science, this group of trees had faced life and death together … “Connected”.
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Right in front of me, in the middle of the bush, a grove of 20-30 trees .… all dead. Their shape told me that they were probably spruce trees, but I could not find any needles or bark samples to verify my suspicion.
The trees were surrounded by a healthy, normal-looking forest. What could have happened to them? Disease? Too much or too little water? Poor soil conditions? Another type of trauma? I had many guesses, but no answers.
As I stood there trying to make sense of the scene in front of me, my gaze and thoughts focused on the branches emanating from the trunks of the trees. I began to see them as, perhaps, some sort of antenna system reaching out from one tree to the next, forming a communication network throughout the tree community.
Scientific studies point out that forest trees are able to work together to grow and flourish by communicating with each other through the soil and the air in various ways. My eyes told me, that whatever the science, this group of trees had faced life and death together … “Connected”.
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