Beresford-Kroeger, Diana - Environment Forests Trees - 11.12.28

"The Global Forest: 40 Ways the Trees Can Save Us" The biological mysteries of our global forests, the threats they face, and the future of our trees & forests. Continuing the discussion.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger is an Irish-Canadian researcher, scientist & nature mystic who perhaps knows more about trees & forests than anyone in North America. She is an expert botanist & medical biochemist who has written extensively on the molecular biology of trees, their medicinal properties, the social interactions between trees & other life forms in our forests, sustainable forestry, & the traditional wisdom trees hold for healing. Her scientific work has appeared in The American Heart Journal & the Journal of Microscopy. She has held science posts at the Canadian Dept of Agriculture & the Univ of Ottawa School of Medicine. Diana’s own research gardens outside Ottawa, open to the public, include rare plants from Turkey, Iran, China, & one hundred rare types of trees from the northern forests & other countries, many that are endangered. “The Global Forest”