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“You can’t understand [old-growth trees] if you don’t know where they are,”
said NPR science reporter Christopher
Joyce. Then he set out for Alaska’s
Tongass National Forest to join the people who
are putting landmark trees on the map.
Click the quotes at right to hear Joyce’s pre-expedition ideas and expectations. (You’ll need RealAudio.) Or read the interview.
Go back to “Landmark Trees” broadcast page.
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“Tongass is part and parcel of the world’s very largest temperate rain forest. There’s no other place
in the world like this.”
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“What they have endeavored to do is...to map the
largest stands of old-growth trees—the very, very largest trees in America outside of California.”
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“We want to try to be able to give trees a voice....They’re going to end up as chopsticks or flooring.”
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