Jill Jonnes's guest appearances

Jill Jonnes

Live at Politics and Prose

Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast

LFPL's At the Library Series

Craig Johnson

Gail Collins

Mitch Landrieu

Guy Winch

Matt Taibbi

Gabrielle Hamilton

Deb Perelman

Brian Jay Jones

James Rebanks

Cokie Roberts

Dave Barry

Stacy Schiff

Peter Brown

Parag Khanna

Helen Prejean

OwlTail

As nature’s largest and longest-lived creations, trees play an extraordinarily important role in our cities. Today, four-fifths of Americans live in or near urban areas, surrounded by millions of trees of hundreds of different species. Despite their ubiquity and familiarity, most of us take trees for granted and know little of their fascinating natural history or remarkable civic virtues.Jill Jonnes’s Urban Forests tells the captivating stories of the founding mothers and fathers of urban forestry, and discusses the value of trees to public health and to our urban infrastructure.

<p>As nature’s largest and longest-lived creations, trees play an extraordinarily important role in our cities. Today, four-fifths of Americans live in or near urban areas, surrounded by millions of trees of hundreds of different species. Despite their ubiquity and familiarity, most of us take trees for granted and know little of their fascinating natural history or remarkable civic virtues.</p><p>Jill Jonnes’s Urban Forests tells the captivating stories of the founding mothers and fathers of urban forestry, and discusses the value of trees to public health and to our urban infrastructure.</p>

Jill Jonnes 4-14-2017