The Woodlands Partnership invites you to a special reading of How to Love a Forest by author Ethan Tapper on Friday, October 11, 2024, from 7–8:30 p.m. at Raven Used Books located at 49 Conway Street, Shelburne Falls, MA 01370.
Ethan has worked as a service forester and a consulting forester for over a decade—advising landowners, municipalities, conservation organizations, foresters and loggers and responsibly stewarding thousands of acres of public and privately-owned forests. In this capacity, Ethan has been recognized as a thought-leader and a disruptor in the conservation community of the northeastern United States and beyond. 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 among other awards and distinctions.
In 2017, Ethan bought a 175-acre forest in Bolton, Vermont that he named “Bear Island.” When he bought Bear Island, it had, as he says, “every problem that a forest could have.” As Ethan worked to help this forest heal, Bear Island helped him crystallize many of the ideas that would eventually become How to Love a Forest. Today, Ethan spends countless hours working at Bear Island, performing the many bittersweet and beautiful acts required to help this forest “reach towards wholeness again.” Where once he saw Bear Island as a symbol of the dysfunction of the modern world, he now sees it as “a symbol of what is possible, a symbol of hope.”
Ethan now owns and operates his own business, Bear Island Forestry, which provides consulting forestry services to landowners; general consulting to government agencies, non-profits and corporations; public speaking and conservation education; and multimedia publication. Ethan is a regular contributor for Northern Woodlands magazine as well as a variety of other publications, and is a digital creator with tens of thousands of followers on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok (all under the handle @HowToLoveAForest). Learn more about Ethan and his work at ethantapper.com, and learn more about Bear Island Forestry at bearislandforestry.com.
In his personal life, Ethan works, writes, hunts and birds at Bear Island and plays in his 10-piece punk band, The Bubs.
How to Love a Forest was released on September 10, 2024. You can order the book anywhere that books are sold, or at ethantapper.com/book
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