First, we all need to get out in the forest. 首先，我们都得走出家门，走进森林。 We need to reestablish local involvement in our own forests. 我们需要重新使当地的居民融入到我们森林中去。 You see, most of our forests now are managed using a
You see, you can take out one or two hub trees, 你们看，我们可以拿走一两颗中心树， but there comes a tipping point, 但这样就会达到森林承受极限了， because hub trees are not unlike rivets in an airplane. 因为森林里的中心树就像是飞机里的铆钉。 You can t
Our poor dog Jigs had slipped and fallen into the pit. 我们可怜的狗吉格斯，脚一滑跌进了一个坑里。 So grandpa ran up with his shovel to rescue the poor dog. 爷爷匆忙抄起一把铁铲，跑过去救那只可怜的狗。 He was down there, swimming in the muck. 那
And then in later experiments, we found the opposite, 而在随后的实验中，我们发现了相反的情况， that fir was sending more carbon to birch than birch was sending to fir, 花旗松给纸皮桦送的碳比纸皮桦给它的碳多， and this was because the fir wa
After the hour was up, I rolled down my window, and I checked for mama grizzly. 一小时的时间到了之后，我摇下了车窗，看看灰熊妈妈还在不在。 Oh good, she's over there eating her huckleberries. 哦太棒了，她在挺远的地方吃她的蓝莓呢。 So I got out of th
Not only that, we're continuing to plant one or two species and weed out the aspens and birches. 不仅如此，我们还在继续种植着那一两种单一的树木，还继续着把山杨和桦树清除出去。 These simplified forests lack complexity, 这种单一的树木种类使森林缺少了多样性， a
Trees in real forests might also share information below ground. 在真正的森林中，树木可能还会在地下交流信息。 But this was really controversial, and some people thought I was crazy, 但这个想法其实挺有争议的，一些人觉得我疯了， and I had a reall
The first day of the experiment, we got out to our plot 实验的第一天，我们来到了实验地点， and a grizzly bear and her cub chased us off. 突然一头灰熊和她的熊宝宝出现，把我们赶跑了。 And I had no bear spray. But you know, this is how forest
For me, I've conducted and published hundreds of experiments in the forest. 对我来说，我在森林中已经进行和发表过上百次的实验了。 Some of my oldest experimental plantations are now over 30 years old. 有一些我最早进行实验的种植园，到现在已经超过30年了。
Imagine you're walking through a forest. 想象你正穿行在森林中。 I'm guessing you're thinking of a collection of trees, 我猜你想的是一大片树， what we foresters call a stand, with their rugged stems and their beautiful crow
You see, like all networks, mycorrhizal networks have nodes and links. 你们看，就像所有的网络一样，真菌的网络中也有节点和链接。 We made this map by examining the short sequences of DNA of every tree and every fungal individual i
Mother trees colonize their kin with bigger mycorrhizal networks. 母树通过更大的菌根网络来覆盖住自己孩子们所在的区域。 They send them more carbon below ground. 在地下，它们给孩子们会送去更多的碳。 They even reduce their own root competition to
