The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests

Ancient and carbon-rich, old-growth forests play an irreplaceable role in the environment. Their complex ecosystems clean the air, purify the water, cool the planet, and teem with life. In a time of climate catastrophe, old-growth and other natural forests face existential threats caused by humans-and their survival is crucial to ours.

In a bicoastal journey, environmental journalist LyndaV. Mapes connects the present and future of Pacific Northwest forests to the legacy forests of the north...