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This story appears in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a small piece of Canada's Great Bear Rainforest, one of the largest coastal temperate rain forests in the world.

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Nalini Nadkarni has traveled the world climbing trees and studying tree canopies in rainforests for more than four decades, and she’s coming to Minnesota to talk about the roles of trees in our lives ...