How to Love a Forest book reading

Ethan Tapper has been recognized as a thought-leader and a disruptor in the conservation community of the northeastern U.S. and beyond.

The Woodlands Partnership of Northwest Massachusetts will hold a How to Love a Forest book reading with Ethan Tapper on October 11th from 7 to 8:30 pm at Raven Used Books in Shelburne Falls, MA.

Among awards and distinctions, Tapper 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.

In 2017, Tapper 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 Tapper 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, he 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.”