The drama unfolding at Fairy Creek is a story of very big things — mammoth trees of great age, a forest that could, according to scientists, date back untouched to the Ice Age. …Yet, according to scientists I spoke to this week, we humans — so prone to the big picture — may be looking at things through the wrong lens. If we want to save the rainforest and get closer to understanding climate change, we also need to look to the tiny, tenacious and incredibly complex organisms that exist within Fairy Creek’s forests. One uncommon species, the Old Growth Specklebelly Lichen, found just lately round Fairy Creek by artist and citizen scientist Natasha Lavdovsky, could maintain keys to stopping the logging — and present us how nature creates moist zones that halt wildfires, safety from the worst ravages of local weather change.