Suzanne Simard discovered a fascinating fact about trees: They communicate and interact with each other using below-ground fungal networks, what she calls biological pathways. Not only that, she found that trees also have cognitive capabilities in terms of perception, learning, and memory. Simard’s research led to the recognition that forests have hub trees, or “mother trees”—big, old trees that play an important role in flow of information and resources in a forest. “Trees don’t have brains, they don’t have nervous systems, but they have these structures and these highly evolved patterns of how their bodies are built that are so similar to humans and animals that they have the hallmarks of intelligence,” Simard, a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia, told The Epoch Times. Simard became interested in the workings of trees and forests as a child in B.C., where her grandfather was a horse logger and …