The Hidden Life of Rotting Wood: What Decomposition Can Teach Us About Resilience
I’ve spent a lot of time in forests over the years, and if you’d asked me early in my career what the most fascinating thing in a forest was, I might have said the trees themselves—the towering oaks, the maples, the pines. But over time, I’ve come to realize that some of the most extraordinary […]
How Fungi Saved My Curiosity (and Might Save the Planet)
I didn’t set out to become a “fungi person.” In fact, for much of my life, I barely gave mushrooms a second thought. But over the years, as I worked in forests, studied biology, and explored ecosystems up close, fungi revealed themselves as some of the most fascinating, important, and downright weird organisms on the […]