The Narwhal https://thenarwhal.ca Deep Dives, Cold Facts, & Pointed Commentary en-US Copyright 2026 The Narwhal hourly 1 Finding the Mother Tree: ecologist Suzanne Simard offers solutions to B.C.’s forest woes https://thenarwhal.ca/suzanne-simard-mother-tree-profile/ Sat, 17 Jul 2021 15:09:48 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=31134 From eating dirt as a child to discovering the mycorrhizal network below the forest floor, Simard has spent her entire career trying to find answers about how forests work; now, armed with those answers, she’s calling for change Matt Simmons Profile B.C. forestry logging old-growth forest solutions Photo: Louis Bockner / The Narwhal suzanne simard sitting in a forest