#simard

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"Summer of 84" de François Simard, Anouk Whissell et Yoann-Karl Whissell (2018) avec les jeunes Graham Verchere, Caleb Emery, Judah Lewis, Cory Gruter-Andrew et Tiera Skovbye, et Rich Sommer, Jason Gray-Stanford et Shauna Johannesen, mai 2024.

[ancestorsalive]

Simard’s houseboat in the Spallumchuck rapids.

Photo from the Enderby & District Museum.

A houseboat caught in the Skookumchuk rapids in this undated photo. Photograph donor Joyce Taggart said the boat belonged to the Simards. [7167]

Emily Lussin wrote about the Chucks, as they are known locally, in an article on the Kayak for Youth Program in the book, Flowing Through Time, Stores of Kingfisher and Mabel Lake: “The Shuswap River flows calmly out of Mabel Lake picking up speed as it starts charging down this stretch of whitewater. Every feature has been named. It starts with a wave called Teeter Totter, where at high water a long time ago a log got held up on a rock and later that summer at lower flow was able to be teeter tottered back and forth. Then there is a huge hole called Greyhound that could latterly swallow a Greyhound bus. Next up is the “wave train” of the Chucks with a few holes at different levels and the Ledge on the river right heading out of Big Pool. One and on it goes, flowing over the rocks, forming more memorable features we know as Hawaii-Five-O, Quickie, the Whirlies, the Jet Ferry, the S-bends, and the Rodeo Hole!”

[bewellr]

Strategic Alliances are Powerful

Strategic Alliances are Powerful

According to Suzanne Simard’s excellent book that reviews her powerful, replicated, scientifically valid research, “Diversity matters and everything in the universe is connected.” Throughout her book she explains how forests generate magic through synergy. As she points out, we have missed the power of synergy and mistakenly simplified societies and ecosystems because our “Reductionist science”…

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Climate, Regeneration

RC

[snowshoe1980]

The Social Life of Forests

Trees appear to communicate and cooperate through subterranean networks of fungi. What are they sharing with one another?

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The Social Life of Forests

Trees appear to communicate and cooperate through subterranean networks of fungi. What are they sharing with one another?

“I think these trees are very perceptive,” she said. “Very perceptive of who’s growing around them. I’m really interested in whether they perceive us.” I asked her to clarify what she meant. Simard explained that trees sense nearby plants and animals and alter their behavior accordingly: The gnashing mandibles of an insect might prompt the production of chemical defenses, for example. Some studies have even suggested that plant roots grow toward the sound of running water and that certain flowering plants sweeten their nectar when they detect a bee’s wing beats. “Trees perceive lots of things,” Simard said. “So why not us, too?”

Also, things that keep me up at night right now: 

“Although plants are obviously alive, they are rooted to the earth and mute, and they rarely move on a relatable time scale; they seem more like passive aspects of the environment than agents within it. Western culture, in particular, often consigns plants to a liminal space between object and organism. It is precisely this ambiguity that makes the possibility of plant intelligence and society so intriguing — and so contentious.”

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The Social Life of Forests

Trees appear to communicate and cooperate through subterranean networks of fungi. What are they sharing with one another?

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Log jam at Skookumchuck Rapids on Shuswap River, ca. 1925

Henry Simard; Wilfred Simard, and a third unknown man breaking up a log jam in the Skookumchuck Rapids on part of a log drive down the Shuswap River.