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Talking with Lynda V. Mapes about the Witness Tree

Lynda V. Mapes is the environmental reporter for the Seattle Times. She researched and wrote Witness Treewhile a Knight Fellow in science journalism at MIT and a Bullard Fellow in forest research in residence with her oak at the Harvard Forest.

John Latimer met Lynda when he spent time at Harvard Forest talking about his extensive Phenology notes for over 34  years and his program on KAXE/KBXE Tuesday mornings. 

Listen to their conversation here about a tree that Lynda studied for a year in the Harvard Forest and what that time can tell us about climate change. 

As a mail carrier in rural Grand Rapids, Minn., for 35 years, John Latimer put his own stamp on a career that delivered more than letters. Indeed, while driving the hundred-mile round-trip daily route, he passed the time by observing and recording seasonal changes in nature, learning everything he could about the area’s weather, plants and animals, and becoming the go-to guy who could answer customers’ questions about what they were seeing in the environment.