A few years ago, while sitting in his oncologist’s office, photographer Lance Oditt flipped through a National Geographic feature on the wisdom of trees as he waited for the results of his treatment for a chronic form of blood cancer. The article included Utah’s Pando, a grove of quaking aspen once considered the largest living organism in the world. Pando’s story resonated with Oditt: The tree had survived for millennia despite disease, overgrazing, and development threats. Maybe I can learn a thing or two from it, Oditt remembers thinking. It…
