For this virtual event, Farm & Wilderness Conservation is delighted to host Vermont forester and author Ethan Tapper! Ethan Tapper is a forester, author, birder, naturalist and digital creator from Vermont. His first book, How To Love A Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World, was published in September, 2024.
For eight years, Ethan served as the Chittenden County Forester, advising landowners, municipalities, conservation organizations, foresters and loggers, on the responsible stewardship of forests and other ecosystems. Ethan left this position in 2024 to pursue his own consulting forestry business – Bear Island Forestry. Throughout his career, Ethan has been recognized as a thought-leader and a disruptor in the conservation community of the Northeast and beyond: among other awards and distinctions, Ethan has been named the Northeast-Midwest State Foresters Alliance’s Forester of the Year and the American Tree Farm System's National Tree Farm Inspector of the Year. He is a regular contributor to Northern Woodlands magazine and a variety of other publications, and is a digital creator with tens of thousands of followers on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and TikTok (all under the handle @HowToLoveAForest). Learn more about Ethan and his work at EthanTapper.com
During this presentation, Ethan will discuss how How to Love a Forest came to be. He will ask: what does it mean to love a forest in a climate crisis and a biodiversity crisis, in a time when ecosystems are more needed and more under threat than ever before? How do we respond to the harmful legacies of the past? How do we use our species' incredible power to heal rather than to harm? How do we reach towards a better future? He will offer a clear-eyed, hopeful and pragmatic vision of a world in which so much is wrong and so much is worth saving.
There will be time at the end of the presentation dedicated to questions. We hope you will join us! Click here to learn more on Ethan's website and purchase How to Love a Forest.
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