There's a new book by Mike Shanahan about fig trees, "Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers," and I interviewed him about the latter part of the book he uses to focus on the restoration potential of fig trees, including stranglers: he says whole forests could be regenerated by planting figs, since they will grow on anything and attract and feed so many other species:
https://news.mongabay.com/2016/11/can-fig-trees-regrow-lost-rainforests/ We talk about FORRU's use of drones to drop seedlings on hard to reach areas, but most of this experimental work is done by people carrying baskets of young figs on their backs so far. “By themselves the figs could build a forest,” ecologist EJH Corner wrote almost a century ago. Erik -- See my latest writing projects for Sierra magazine, the Guardian, and others plus online photo gallery here <http://www.erikhoffner.com/> *tw: @erikhoffner <https://twitter.com/ErikHoffner>*
