Thank you for joining me on a recent Creatures of the Lost experience, an exclusive series from Lost in Forestville and AirBnB Experiences.
These experiences are deeply meaningful to me and reflect a labor of love and tender care. Thank you for sharing the gift of your time, presence, and support.
Lost in Forestville is dedicated to care of the natural world and the wilderness within. From stories to experiences, these offerings are designed to help you slow down, consider the invisible, reconnect to the heart of what makes us human in a more-than-human world.
about our forests
These experiences take place in (or near) a coastal redwood forest in northern California, one of the 25 remaining hotspots of biodiversity on earth. The life within the canopy, understory, and forest floor are a deeply interconnected environment that reflect the deep ancestry of beings who depend on each other. Most of our redwoods are older than the homes and humans who live here now, reflecting generations of naturalist caretakers who came before us. Now it’s our turn.
Here are a few resources to help you continue where our journey off.
naturalist Apps
iNaturalist is citizen scientist initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society. This is my favorite app for identifying plants, mushrooms, and animal marks.
Merlin Bird ID from Cornell University is an almanac of birds in Northern America. This is my favorite app for identifying birds and their calls.
redwood conservation
Learn more about our endangered coastal redwoods at Save the Redwoods League, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to protect and restore California redwoods and connect people to the peace and beauty of redwood forests.
hidden worlds (“The wood wide web”)
Radiolab: From Tree to Shining Tree. A forest can feel like a place of great stillness and quiet. But if you dig a little deeper, there's a hidden world beneath your feet as busy and complicated as a city at rush hour.
The Hidden Life of Trees. Are trees social beings? Peter Wohlleben describes how trees are like human families in this NY Times Best Seller.
the power of silence
NYT Op-Doc "Sanctuaries of Silence" takes you on a virtual journey with sound tracker Gordan Hempton into one of Earth's last remaining bastions of true quiet – the Hoh Rain Forest, in Washington State. In “Sanctuaries of Silence,” the threat is not so much to a place, as to our very ability to encounter the natural world on its own terms. As Hempton puts it, “Silence isn’t the absence of something, but the presence of everything.”
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