This brings me to another adventure, one I’m still exploring because it speaks so graphically to the species connections we overlook. Scientists before me have discovered that the nitrogen from decayed salmon lives in the rings of trees along the rivers from where they came. I wanted to know whether salmon nitrogen was absorbed by mycorrhizal fungi of the Mother Trees and transmitted through their networks to other trees deeper in the forest. Even more, were the salmon nutrients in the trees declining with the reduction in salmon populations and habitat loss, causing the forests to suffer? If
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