The Magic of Old-Growth Forests

One site Epstein visited on his journey was Utah’s Fishlake National Forest, where he spent time with Pando: a collection of 47,000 aspen trunks connected to the same root system. Covering 106 acres and weighing about 13.2 million pounds, Pando is one of the largest living organisms on the planet. Epstein has written that it “creates an illusion of infinity.”