[MAIPC] review of The Hidden Life of Trees

[Melissa Bravo]

I LOVE IT! His voice, his perspective his genre. I even wrote a poem after reading it called Mental Wars which I have entered in a national writing competition. 
It's not a text book. 

Melissa A. Bravo, M.S. CCA, Agronomist Meadow Lake Farm Consulting Services 814-574-4067 / bravomelissa at yahoo.com 





 

    On Friday, February 8, 2019, 7:29:12 AM EST, Stephen Hiltner <stevehiltner at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 Like the books that deny the problem of invasive species, The Hidden Life of Trees is written by a non-scientist and was reviewed most prominently in the mainstream media by non-scientists. It was a best seller first in Germany, then in the US. I first heard about it while serving on an advisory committee for local sustainability, where a member of our shade tree commission started talking about mama trees and baby trees. Then a friend gave me a copy, and I started digging into it a bit. It's amazing how a book that's such a mix of information and misinformation can garner such positive reviews. 

I decided to write my own review that details some of the problematic aspects, including a mishmash chapter on invasive species:https://newscompanion.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-hidden-life-of-trees-review.html

It would be interesting to hear others' views of the book, and encounters with people who had read it.
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