A special presentation co-sponsored by Champlain Area Trails,
the Adirondack Garden Club and the Lyceum

Ethan Tapper:
How to Love A Forest

Thursday, October 16
6:30pm

Join us for an informative and insightful lecture about forest stewardship with Ethan Tapper, a forester, digital creator, and the bestselling author of How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World. For more than a decade, he has been recognized as a thought leader and a disruptor in the worlds of forestry, conservation, and ecosystem stewardship, winning multiple regional and national awards for his work. In this insightful session, Ethan will share his compassionate and pragmatic vision for fostering a sustainable relationship between ecosystems and people. Copies of How to Love a Forest will be on sale at this event. Free to attend, though a suggested donation is welcome to support our co-sponsors.

Ethan Tapper is an internationally-recognized forester, bestselling author, and digital storyteller from Vermont. His first book — How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World — was published in September, 2024. In addition to working as a forester with public lands and private landowners, Tapper is restoring Bear Island, his 175-acre conserved homestead, orchard, sugarbush and working forest in Vermont. His first-hand experiences at Bear Island have transformed his conservation philosophy and his way of seeing land management. His overarching message: that humans can and must become a keystone species, taking radical action to protect ecosystems and all the species that rely on them, ourselves included.