Dutchess Land Conservancy
Wednesday, November 5, 6:00 PM EST Online Event
Join bestselling author and forester Ethan Tapper for an inspiring presentation on what it means to care for forests at this moment in time.
What does it mean to love a forest? In this talk, Ethan Tapper, a forester, author, and content creator from Vermont, will draw from his work as a forester and his bestselling and award-winning book -- How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World -- to discuss what it means to care for forests and other ecosystems at this moment in time. 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? In a time in which many believe that “protecting” ecosystems means protecting them from ourselves, Ethan argues that humans must take action to help ecosystems heal and to move into a more abundant future. Ethan’s message is at once compassionate and pragmatic, clear-eyed and hopeful, sobering and inspiring, a powerful new idea for how we can build a world that works for all of its ecosystems and all of its people.
Ethan Tapper is a forester, digital storyteller, and the bestselling author of How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World. For more than a decade, Ethan 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 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.
Ethan works, writes, hunts, birds, 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 plays in his punk band, The Bubs.
The DLC's Earth Matters webinar series is sponsored by LaBella Associates, Mutual of America, and Structure Works Construction.
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