High in the Trees :The Scientist [2007-04-01]


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High in the Trees At thirty stories up, in the expansive, intermingling tops of West Coast redwood trees, Stephen Sillett, a renegade tree biologist and aerial fungus guru, was one of the first to describe an unanticipated ecosystem brimming with life in the mid 1990s. His story, and the story of the other "big tree" fanatics, is the stuff of Richard Preston's new book, The