In this narrated essay, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes looks beyond the scientific lens of subject-object while studying the consequences of climate change on a dying community of yellow cedars in the Alaskan archipelago. Lauren is the author of In Search of the Canary Tree. 

https://emergencemagazine.org/story/on-survival-the-dead-the-sapling-and-the-ancients/

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