10-05-26 Ecological Stewardship: How to Love a Forest
with guest Ethan Tapper, forester, ecologist, and bestselling author of How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World
In his bestselling book, How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World, Ethan Tapper asks: What does it mean to live in a time in which ecosystems are in retreat and extinctions rattle the bones of the earth? 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?
Tapper helps us reimagine what forests are and what it means to care for them. He is a forester, ecologist, content creator, and bestselling author. For more than a decade, he has been recognized as a thought-leader in the world of ecosystem stewardship, winning numerous regional and national awards for his work. More recently, he has been recognized as a writer. Since its publication in 2024, How to Love a Forest has been named the winner of the 2025 New England Book Award for nonfiction, and received international acclaim. Ethan’s highly-anticipated second book – The Forest Year: Finding Hope in a World Worth Saving – will become available this month, October, 2026.
Tapper’s message of relationship, responsibility, and hope reaches millions of people each year through his writing, social media channels with hundreds of thousands of followers, and the hundreds of walks, talks, and keynotes that he delivers across North America each year. He works, writes and runs a small consulting forestry business from his home at Bear Island – his 175-acre working forest, homestead, orchard and sugarbush in Vermont and he plays in his punk band, The Bubs.
INFORMATION RESOURCES
Ethan Tapper’s website – https://ethantapper.com/
BOOKS
The Forest Year by Ethan Tapper – https://ethantapper.com/forestyear
How to Love a Forest by Ethan Tapper – https://ethantapper.com/love
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
https://www.amazon.com/Sand-County-Almanac-Sketches-There/dp/0197500269/ref
Reflections from the North Country by Sigurd F. Olson
https://www.amazon.com/Reflections-Country-Fesler-Lampert-Minnesota-Heritage/dp/0816629935/
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