Forest Education

157 - Can Tree Planting Help Solve The Climate Crisis with Lauren Oakes

157 - Can Tree Planting Help Solve The Climate Crisis with Lauren Oakes

Join host Matthew Kristoff on YourForest Podcast for an inspiring conversation with Lauren Oakes, scientist, storyteller, and author of Tree Keepers: The Race for a Forested Future. This thought-provoking episode explores the creation and maintenance of healthy forest ecosystems as a vital solution to climate change and biodiversity loss. Lauren delves into the complexities of tree planting versus forest restoration, emphasizing thoughtful stewardship, community engagement, and sustainability. Drawing from extensive research and personal experiences, she highlights how forests contribute to carbon sequestration, biodiversity, and community well-being. Learn actionable strategies to support reforestation and foster a resilient, forested future. Don’t miss it!

144-Empathy For Land with Jim Lane

144-Empathy For Land with Jim Lane

As modern culture expands, wilderness dwindles in its wake. It has become more challenging to create empathy for land through real experience. Luckily, there are people like Jim Lane. Jim teaches an Ecology and Conservation course for High School students. His approach gets students out in the bush to experience nature first hand. They learn about scientific observation, interconnectedness, ecology, history and colonialism all through observing nature. All this without leaving school property.