nearly 16,000 acres of forest, 40% of it old growth. Trees 500, even 700, years old, their bark gnarled and grizzled with time, their canopies far over my head. I had gone there to collect myself.

Editor’s note: This is an edited excerpt from Lynda V. Mapes’ book, “The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests” ($29.95 hardcover), which will be published April 22 by the ...

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