Thanks Toby for taking questions!
In your book you use an oak tree to describe the many rolls of a tree. I am interested in that process as it relates to evergreen trees. Could you compare the transpiration of moisture and soil building qualities, etc? I live in Southwest Montana in a monoculture of Douglas Fir and have a hard time picturing this forest as the climax of succession. Could this forest at one time have been filled with many species of trees? Could this forest ever return to that state?
