Nelson scientist Dr Suzanne Simard has teamed up with the West Kootenay Watershed Collaborative to bring her insights from the ongoing Mother Tree Project to the Capital Theatre on January 26.
West Kootenay Watershed Collaborative board chair Dr. Jacqueline Steckler says the Mother Tree Project is to learn how to create a resilient forest and identify sustainable way to manage them as the climate warms.
“The West Kootenay Watershed Collaborative is focused on watershed defense and resilience. We are trying to both work with the Mother Tree Project and educate the wider public to the importance of the project as it regards to the retention of water on the slope.” said Dr Steckler.
“Suzanne is working on this idea of communication between plants and trees through a fungal kind of network. It’s been imaged and shown to be dense and wide and greater than just a tree.”
“It’s important to understand how water is essential value here for all of us around the lake.”
Excerpts from The Mother Tree Project – “The Mother Tree Project (MTP) stands at the forefront of regenerative forestry research, addressing the urgent need to safeguard and steward British Columbia’s forests amidst escalating threats from global climate change.”
Event details: January 26 at the Capital Theatre from 1:30pm.
Tickets are $18 for members and $23 for non-members. You can purchase tickets from the Capital Theatre box office or online.
The event is the second science pub event delivered by the West Kootenay Watershed Collaborative. The next event will host Dr. Younes Alila.
Dr Suzanne Simard
Dr Suzanne Simard teaches forest ecology at the University of British Columbia and lives in Nelson.
She is a best-selling author, who leads a team of researchers on the Mother Tree Project, which brings together academics, governments, First Nations and forestry companies to test forest renewal practices.
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