![]() ![]() ![]() To her surprise, Oakes discovered the resiliency of forgotten forests, flourishing again after years of exposure to stressful conditions. Her recent book, IN SEARCH OF THE CANARY TREE: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World, chronicles the six years Oakes and her team spent studying thousands of trees and countless plants and interviewing locals whose lives are directly affected by the loss of yellow cedar, a species impacted by climate change. She found herself immersed in an even bigger, and totally unexpected story: how the people of Alaska were adapting to the species’ disappearance, and how the forest was adapting to the changing climate conditions. Oakes set out to study the mass die-off of yellow cedar trees on the outer coast of Southeast Alaska. The Art, Science, and Adventure of Environmental Storytelling: Discovering nature’s unexpected resiliency in a rapidly changing world through environmental research ![]()
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