They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration – Emergence Magazine
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They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration – Emergence Magazine
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Immigrants have a special status in the forest. In contrast to tree species that have migrated naturally, they arrive without their typical ecosystems.
Keely Adler added
the most vulnerable trees will need to move much faster, to keep from burning up. They can’t cross highways or farms or housing developments. Maybe we can help them.
Then the small trees that got chopped down today wouldn’t go to waste. They added nutrients to the soil and could even prevent landslides. I pondered these things as I followed Iwao back up the slope.