June 30, 2022

By Logan Heffernan

Suzanne Simard in The Green Room

Ecologist Suzanne Simard photographed in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia. Two decades ago, while researching her doctoral thesis, Simard discovered that trees communicate to each other.

Thursday, June 30th, 2022 

The Green Room returned to the virtual stage on Thursday, June 30th as Suzanne Simard, forest ecologist, plant communication pioneer, and author of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, joined us for a reading and conversation about her work and how it relates to the work of our founder, W.S. Merwin.

We are grateful to Susan and Jac Kean for generously hosting this Green Room event, and for making it possible for The Merwin Conservancy to bring rich conversations like this one to both local and global communities.

The Merwin Conservancy's logo; image displays a palm frond oriented vertically