How to Love a Forest: An Evening with Ethan Tapper

How to Love a Forest walks us through the fragile and resilient community that is a forest, introducing us to wolf trees and spring ephemerals, to the cryptic creatures of the rhizosphere and the necrosphere. It helps us reimagine what forests are and what it means to care for them.

About the author: The best-selling author of How to Love a Forest, Ethan Tapper is a forester, birder, naturalist, and digital creator. His work has earned him numerous regional and national accolades, establishing him as a thought-leader and a disrupter in the northeastern U.S. forestry and conservation sector and beyond. Ethan is a digital creator with tens of thousands of followers on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. He also owns Bear Island Forestry, a consulting forestry company, and regularly contributes to Northern Woodlands magazine and other publications. At Bear Island, his 175-acre working forest, homestead, orchard, and sugarbush, Ethan works, writes, hunts, and aviates.

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