This summer, the KUOW Book Club read Seattle author and environmental journalist Lynda V. Mapes' love letter to old-growth trees, "The Trees are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests."

Mapes traveled across the country, visiting some of the oldest trees we know about and the people who study and protect them. The result was a book that intricately depicts the importance of old trees, the historic harm humans have done to them, and what's being done to reverse that pattern of destruction. Mapes sat down with KUOW Book Club curator Katie Campbell on August 27 in front of a live audience at the Seattle Public Library. They talked about her love for old-growth forests, the people working to save them, and how you - yes, you - can help.

This is the third and final conversation the KUOW Book Club hosted in partnership with the Seattle Public Library this summer. Ijeoma Oluo and Kim Fu also participated, and you can find their interviews in the feed.

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