Too cold to do much outside, and carpet installers getting in the way of doing much inside.

Made progress on Suzanne Simard’s book Finding The Mother Tree, a personalized account of her research on what goes on underground in the forest. She discovered that an amazing amount does go on, thanks to mycorrhizal networks connecting trees of many species into what has come to be known as the the “wood-wide-web." Mycorrhiza are various species of fungi that intertwine and sometime interpenetrate the roots of plants helping them obtain minerals and other nutrients. Simard discovered that without the fungus trees have little hope of surviving. She also found out that trees don’t just compete with each other for light and water but actually cooperate, sending nutrients and and medicines back and forth. The forest, she found, is a highly interconnected place, and as a result, can prosper. Clearcuts are bad.