Are you interested in science, nature, creative writing, and ecology? Join forester and author Ethan Tapper for a reading, talk and Q&A. In his book "How to Love a Forest" Tapper asks what it means 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? Tapper walks us through the fragile and resilient community that is a forest. He introduces us to wolf trees and spring ephemerals, and to the mysterious creatures of the rhizosphere and the necrosphere. He helps us reimagine what forests are and what it means to care for them.
Ethan Tapper is a forester, birder, naturalist, digital creator and author. He has been recognized as a thought-leader and a disruptor in the forestry and conservation community of the northeastern United States and beyond, winning multiple regional and national awards for his work. Ethan runs a consulting forestry business — Bear Island Forestry – 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, TikTok and Facebook. In his personal life, Ethan works, writes, hunts and birds at Bear Island — his 175-acre working forest, homestead, orchard and sugarbush — works toward a graduate degree at the University of Vermont, and plays in his 10-piece punk band, The Bubs.
Please join us in the Community Foundation Theater, located in the Gund Gallery, on Thursday, March 20, at 5 p.m.