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In Defense of Plants · 603 episodes with transcripts

Plants are everything. They are also incredibly interesting. From the smallest duckweed to the tallest redwood, the botanical world is full of wonder. Tune in for a podcast celebrating everything botany.

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Ep. 600 - The Ecological Side of Silviculture

October 18, 2026

Matt Candeias (0:00)

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Hello everyone and welcome to the In Defense of Plants Podcast, the official podcast of indefenseofplants.com. What's up? This is your host, Matt. Welcome to the show. How is everyone doing this week? I'm doing great because we are talking about silviculture, the art and science of controlling the establishment…

Ben Knapp (2:03)

Yeah. Thank you very much, Matt. I'm very happy to be here with you today. My name is Ben Knapp and I'm a professor in the School of Natural Resources at University of Missouri. My area of study is silviculture, and that's something that a lot of people do not know what it is.

Even students coming into our program when they start, a lot of times don't know what it is. Basically, it is a study of the way that we manage forests, the tools and techniques that we use in order to work with forests for different objectives, a whole suite of those objectives, which can range from the production…

Matt Candeias (2:57)

Awesome. And what brought you to this field? I mean, were you just an outdoorsy person growing up, or did you have a specific interest in forestry, silviculture, those types of things, or really just kind of stumbled into it?

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