Simsbury Land Trust: Intelligent Trees – The Documentary

Join us for a documentary film – Intelligent Trees to learn about how trees communicate and care for each other. From the filmmaker’s website – “Trees talk, know family ties and care for their young? Is this too fantastic to be true? S cientist Suzanne Simard   (The University of British Columbia, Canada) and  German forester and author Peter Wohlleben have been investigating and observing the communication between trees over decades. And their findings are most astounding. 

Trees are so much more than rows of wood waiting to be turned into furniture, buildings or firewood. They are more than organisms producing oxygen or cleaning the air for us. They are individual beings that have feelings, know friendship have a common language and look after each other. This documentary explores the various ways that trees communicate with each other- from a forester's observations as well as through the microscope of a scientist.

The film centers around the groundbreaking scientific discoveries that Suzanne Simard has been making in the Canadian Wilderness since the 1990s and that seem to be valid for all natural forests around the world!” 

Reservations requested through our website – www.simsburylandtrust.org. Attendance limited to 60 people. Masks are required. This program is co-sponsored by the Simsbury Public Library and the Simsbury Land Trust.