The term “mother tree” was coined in the 2000s by a Canadian scientist named Suzanne Simard, who grew up in a family of loggers in the Monashee Mountains in British Columbia.

Finding the Mother Tree Suzanne Simard Knopf, $28.95. Opening Suzanne Simard’s new book, Finding the Mother Tree, I expected to learn about the old growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.I had ...

FINDING THE MOTHER TREE Discovering Wisdom in the Forest By Suzanne Simard. In 1980, a 20-year-old silviculturalist hunched over a sickly young spruce planted in a clear-cut forest.

Ecologist Suzanne Simard says trees are "social creatures" that communicate with each other in remarkable ways — including warning each other of danger and sharing nutrients at critical times.