“All nature is linked together by invisible bonds,” the polymath George Perkins Marsh wrote in “Man and Nature,” his ground-breaking book of 1864. After completing our “Wise Trees” project in 2017,  we felt compelled to explore the evidence of those invisible bonds—specifically in American forests.
                                                                                                                                                                 Optimistically we began this project hoping to show the beauty of the entangled forest environment, but we were inevitably confronted with the consequences of human actions. The mark that human-caused climate change has left on forests is seen in the devastating impacts of droughts, mega fires, fungal diseases, insect invasions, and rising oceans–all evidence of a troubled relationship with the natural world.