Ethan Tapper talks How to Love a Forest @ TCB!
Schedule
Fri Mar 21 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Take Cover Books | Peterborough, ON
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We're stoked to host author Ethan Tapper on the evening of March 21 to discuss his new book, How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World. Tapper's book is a tender, fearless debut by a forester writing in the tradition of Suzanne Simard, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Robert Macfarlane.RSVP for the Event here: https://takecoverbooks.ca/events/1833520250322
About the Book:
Only those who love trees should cut them, writes forester Ethan Tapper. In 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. This world, Tapper writes, is degraded by people who do too much and by those who do nothing. As the ecosystems that sustain all life struggle, we straddle a status quo that treats them as commodities and opposing claims that the only true expression of love for the natural world is to leave it alone.
Proffering a more complex vision, Tapper argues that the actions we must take to protect ecosystems are often counterintuitive, uncomfortable, even heartbreaking. With striking prose, he shows how bittersweet acts—like loving deer and hunting them, loving trees and felling them—can be expressions of compassion. Tapper weaves a new land ethic for the modern world.
About the Author:
Ethan Tapper is a forester, birder, naturalist and digital creator, and the author of How to Love a Forest. 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.
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Where is it happening?
Take Cover Books, 360 George St N, Peterborough, ON K9H 7E7, Canada,Peterborough, OntarioEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
