MGMT: A Family of Trees (Fungi and Forests with Dr. Suzanne Simard)
Uncovering networks in our forests’ understory.
This episode originally aired 10/14/2020.
In this encore episode, MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser talk with Dr. Suzanne Simard, forest ecology professor, about how trees communicate with one another. We also discuss the folly of industrialized logging, how trees help other trees, Native American ancestral DNA in cedar, and where to buy mushrooms in Connecticut.