Nan Evans talks with Lynda Mapes, longtime environmental reporter for The Seattle Times, about how culture, economics, and science have fundamentally changed how we use timber resources and perceive our relationship with forests. Much of the conversation is driven by Mapes’ most recent book, The Trees are Speaking: Dispaches from the Salmon Forest (part 1 of a two-part program). (KPTZ airdate: September 3, 2025)

Learn more:
Lynda Mapes
The Trees are Speaking: Dispaches from the Salmon Forest
Cedar Flats Research Natural Area
Chimacum Ridge Community Forest
Chimacum Ridge Community Forest Grand Opening Celebration

Books mentioned:
Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home by Lynda Mapes
The Olympic Rainforest: A Ecological Web by Ruth Kirk and Jerry Franklin
Ecological Forest Management by Jerry Franklin, Norman Johnson, and Debora Johnson
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

Bird sound recording: Thomas G. Sander, ML125369, courtesy of Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library
Music by Rick Bauer

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