'Old trees matter.' Seattle author Lynda Mapes is writing to save them in her new book Katie Campbell August 18, 2025 / 9:00 am

The KUOW Book Club is continuing its summer reading series with Seattle Public Library this month. We're reading environmental journalist and author Lynda V. Mapes' new book, "The Trees are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests." There's a lot of ground to cover, so let's dive in.

Atext like "The Trees are Speaking" runs the risk of being too academic, too dense for the average reader who wants to learn more but whose life is not devoted to the subject matter. But like Mapes' other works and books that share shelf space with hers, the people who have dedicated themselves to the trees bring magic to the academia of it all.

Mapes is among them, ma

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