Rooted in Story: Tree

Join SAMO Fund Field Institute and Melina Watts for a conversation about how trees communicate, a reading from her novel, and celebrate Earth Day by engaging with your own personal relationship with biodiversity.

Watts' obsessive botanical, scientific and historical research give substance to a world that feels both as real as last weekend's dust on hiking boots and as mind altering as a fully fledged mystical experience. You'll never see Mexican spranglegrass the same way again. Take a journey into the heart of the woods where every plant shines. Tree will change how you see nature. Tree is the story of 229 years in the life of a Coast live oak from the point of view of... the tree.

The event takes place in the Santa Monica College Library

TIME: 1:00PM-2:00PM

DATE: Thursday, April 23, 2026

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Host or Publisher Santa Monica Mountains Fund