The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests

A call to rethink our relationship with 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 Lynda V. Mapes connects the present and future of Pacific Nort...