It soon became apparent that the State of Texas knew very little about the two individuals to whom it had given custody of six children - with fateful consequences.

Behind the family's loving facade, however, was a pattern of abuse and neglect that went ignored as the couple withdrew the children from school and moved across the country. Investigators soon concluded that the crash was a murder-suicide, but there was more to the story: Jennifer and Sarah Hart, it turned out, were a white married couple who had adopted the six Black children from two different Texas families in 20. On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff beside the Pacific Coast Highway. Sunday, May 7 7pm (PT) / Powell’s City of Books Roxanna Asgarian in Conversation With Shane Dixon Kavanaugh Wohlleben will be joined in conversation by Dave Miller, host of OPB’s Think Out Loud. At the heart of The Power of Trees lies Wohlleben's passionate plea: that our survival is dependent on trusting ancient forests, and allowing them to thrive. With the warmth and wonder familiar to readers from his previous books, Wohlleben also shares emerging scientific research about how forests shape climates both locally and across continents that trees adapt to changing environmental conditions through passing knowledge down to their offspring and how old growth may in fact have the most survival strategies for climate change. The way to save trees, and ourselves? Step aside and let forests - which are naturally better equipped to face environmental challenges - to heal themselves. Instead, they are ecosystems that consist of thousands of species, from animals to fungi and bacteria. Not only are these trees more susceptible to disease, flooding, fires, and landslides, we need to understand that forests are more than simply a collection of trees. While politicians and business leaders would have us believe that cutting down forests can be offset by mass tree planting, Wohlleben offers a warning: many tree planting schemes lead to ecological disaster. As human-caused climate change devastates the planet, forests play a critical role in keeping it habitable. Now, in The Power of Trees (translated by Jane Billinghurst) (Greystone), he turns to their future, with a searing critique of forestry management, tree planting, and the exploitation of old growth forests. In his beloved book The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben revealed astonishing discoveries about the social networks of trees and how they communicate. Peter Wohlleben in Conversation With Dave Millerįriday, May 5 7pm (PT) / Powell’s City of Books

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