Roots grow underground, feeding growth. They form the basis, the foundation from which something new emerges. The word root itself traces back to the Latin radix, a lineage it shares with radical. To consider roots, then, is to return to beginnings and to imagine how things might start anew.

Roots for a Critical Forest Lexicon is an expanding collection of critical terms, concepts, and approaches that invite reflection on contemporary mobilizations of forests within large-scale governance efforts. Grounded in the social sciences, each contribution offers a succinct yet probing exploration of forest terminologies—those everyday words and ideas that shape how forests are known, managed, and inhabited. Through short interventions, problematizations of taken-for-granted terms, and proposals of novel concepts, Roots seeks to cultivate the foundation for more engaged, exploratory, and just forest relations. Submissions are welcome; potential authors are encouraged to contact the FORAGE coordinators for further details.

Green Frontiers By: Jodie Asselin In this post Jodie Asselin describes the concept of green frontiers and addresses the question, how can we best understand the historical and political trends shaping the distribution of ‘green’ forest initiatives and their impacted communities? Read about the concept of green frontiers here.	Resilience By: Irene van Oorschot In this post Irene van Oorschot describes the concept of resilience and address the question, how can social scientists productively and critically engage with the proliferating, if fuzzy notion of forest resilience and meaningfully intervene in ongoing conundrums in forest policy and practice? Read about the resilience here.