eventually show us that the complex mycorrhizal network unraveled into chaos with clear-cutting. With the Mother Trees gone, a forest would lose its gravitas. But within a few years, as seedlings grew into saplings, the new forest would slowly reorganize into another network. Without the pull of the Mother Trees, though, the new forest network might never be the same. Especially with widespread clear-cutting and climate change. The carbon in the trees, and the other half in the soil and mycelium and roots, might vaporize into thin air. Compounding climate change. Then what? Wasn’t this the
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