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The Birches In The Wood Wide Web

Kill one birch tree and you’re responsible for the premature death of the Douglas firs

Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash

silver birches, brighten the forest
and make my stride confident
I collect their silky bark
to kindle a lonely night.

Fujico Hashimoto

Selma’s first American Sentence

Kill Paper birches, and witness how Douglas firs die prematurely.

© selma

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As for the poems, my source and burst of wisdom come with clues and careful scientific research from the book, The Hidden Life Of Trees by
Peter Wohlleben.

Because, yeah, we write the stories that matter.

"Paper birches, with their lush leaves and gossamer bark, seemed to be feeding
the soil and helping their coniferous neighbors. But how? In pulling back the
forest floor using microscopic and genetic tools, I discovered that the vast
belowground mycelial network was a busting communty of mycorrhizal fungal
speciaes. These fungi are mutualistic. They connect the…