Artful science

SANDY LONG
Posted 7/25/18

In last week’s “River Talk” column, Scott Rando summarized the scientific outcomes of the 2018 Upper Delaware Bioblitz. In comparison to the first BioBlitz held on the same Wayne …

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In last week’s “River Talk” column, Scott Rando summarized the scientific outcomes of the 2018 Upper Delaware Bioblitz. In comparison to the first BioBlitz held on the same Wayne County, PA property in 2013, this year’s event broadened the boundaries of the science-based survey by expanding the programming to include more art—theatre, music, drawing and puppetry—that meshed with the science in thought-provoking ways.

As the public examined the finds of the scientists and asked questions of them, NACL Streets stilt-walkers prepared to perform their stirring new work, “Trees,” which explored the ways trees work with other plants and organisms in nature and communicate with each other. “For hundreds of years, an assemblage of gigantic beings thrives in a forest, not as rugged individuals, but as a community,” the show began.

In a similar vein, a short video produced by the BBC World Service further explores the dynamics of trees and their sophisticated relationships with other plants, in a process nicknamed the Wood Wide Web (see https://bit.ly/2O9ssxG).

The video summarizes concepts presented in The New York Times’ bestselling author Peter Wohlleben’s, “The Hidden Life of Trees.” The book is the first in his “Mysteries of Nature Trilogy.” The second, “The Inner Life of Animals,” is available now, and the third, “The Secret Wisdom of Nature,” is expected in spring 2019.

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