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Ethan Tapper on the Shape of Forest Stewardship

Ethan Tapper on the Shape of Forest Stewardship

NWPL: Ethan Tapper "How To Love A Forest"

NWPL: Ethan Tapper "How To Love A Forest"

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Ethan Tapper on the Shape of Forest Stewardship

Ethan Tapper on the Shape of Forest Stewardship

814 views9 months ago

YouTubePenn State Extension

#97: How to Love a Forest with Ethan Tapper

#97: How to Love a Forest with Ethan Tapper

96 viewsMay 20, 2024

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How to Love a Forest w/ Ethan Tapper

How to Love a Forest w/ Ethan Tapper

174 viewsSep 20, 2024

YouTubeThompson Free Library

09/03/24 “How to Love a Forest” with forester/author Ethan Tapper

09/03/24 “How to Love a Forest” with forester/author Ethan Tapper

831 viewsSep 3, 2024

YouTubeAcross the Fence

How To Love A Forest by Ethan Tapper

How To Love A Forest by Ethan Tapper

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Hope for Our Forests

I just got my hands on an advance reading copy of How to Love a Forest and it feels … Intense. I wrote How to Love a Forest one hour at a time, from 5:00-6:00 in the morning for almost six years. It’s my love letter to forests and to Bear Island, a reimagining of forests and our relationship to them, my hope for a better world, and a message in a bottle to you, whoever you are. Preorder it at EthanTapper.com and HowtoLoveaForest.com (links in bio) !! #forester #author #authorsofinstagram #forest

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One of the most difficult things to understand about forests and other ecosystems is how something like the death of a tree (or the death of an animal) could be good or bad — tree mortality can be sad and jarring and harmful AND it can be life-giving and beautiful. As long as there have been trees, trees have been dying — it is a process as normal and as natural and as essential as the life of trees, and entire communities of organisms have built their lives and their evolutionary identities aro

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Protesting the “big bad “logger” will always be more exciting, but what we really need is people fighting to keep forests as forests — the much less sexy but exponentially more important work of advocating for compact development and increasing protections for ecosystems from development and deforestation. #forests #forestry #forester #logging #management #deforestation #nature #ecosystem #ecology #environment #trees #treesofinstagram #gorilla #meme #memes #vermont | Ethan Tapper

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Ethan Tapper on Instagram: "In forestry we spend a lot of time trying to increase the “resilience” of our forests and to decrease their “vulnerability.” One of the most important ways that we do that is by taking action to increase forests’ species diversity (different species of trees) and structural diversity (AKA “multi-generationality” — different sizes and ages of trees). Managing for multi-generationality does a bunch of different things: it improves the resilience of forests to extreme we

21.6K viewsJan 15, 2025

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10/09/25 How Did Ethan Tapper Learn to Love a Forest and Become a Social Media Influencer?

617 views7 months ago

YouTubeAcross the Fence

Here’s a forest fact for you on this Sunday morning! I’m so obsessed with dead wood — it is such an incredibly important part of forest ecology, and so lacking in our modern forests. When a dead tree can have more living material than a living tree, it kinda makes you wonder what it means for a tree to be “alive,” doesn’t it? #forests #fact #facts #forestry #forester #ecology #ecosystem #environment #wildlife #woods #nature #fungi #bugs #trees #treesofinstagram #vermont | Ethan Tapper

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It’s finally time to introduce “the Memory Tree,” my favorite tree in the world, a tree that I write about in my book How to Love a Forest. I often say that the Memory Tree and I “grew up together” — as I’ve been on this brutal and beautiful journey to heal my land (Bear Island) over the last 7 years, the Memory Tree has grown from a little sapling to a huge, beautiful tree. Now, every time I see the Memory Tree I see it as a marker of my time on this land, the changes I have effected on this ec

20.1K viewsJan 16, 2025

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Forestry Vocabulary: Learn the Definitions of Common Forestry Terms and Terminology

901 viewsNov 28, 2023

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Ethan Tapper on Instagram: "Forests + deer - pig = … ferns? One of the things that’s been so fascinating about getting to travel all over the place talking about forests is that I learn about so many complex ecological situations all over the place. When I make videos, I try to represent things the best way that I can, but I’ll never be able to capture every nuance of how these situations play-out everywhere. Every ecosystem is different! My videos go out to hundreds of thousands, or sometimes m

198.7K views5 months ago

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Ethan Tapper on Instagram: "What’s a forest “supposed” to look like? In How to Love a Forest, I spend the first chapter “reimagining” forests — exploring the differences between what we think forests should look like and what healthy forests actually look like, using the orchard at Bear Island as a setting. As is so often the case, doing the right thing is “messy”! And that makes it even more beautiful. #forest #forests #forestry #forester #nature #restoration #tree #trees #stem #love"

32.9K viewsMar 26, 2025

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Ethan Tapper on Instagram: "Forest management is inherently hard to understand — especially when it involves cutting beautiful trees and changing beautiful forests. What do we do about that? In my experience, one of the most powerful things that you can do is to reach out to the conservation organizations and professionals where you are — people that are engaged in deep relationship and deep responsibility with ecosystems — and listen to them with an open mind. I think that, in many cases, you’l

52.1K views10 months ago

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02/20/24 Vermont County Forester Ethan Tapper

428 viewsFeb 20, 2024

YouTubeAcross the Fence

07/05/22 Ethan Tapper

661 viewsJul 5, 2022

YouTubeAcross the Fence

Ethan Tapper on Instagram: "What’s a natural community? Part 3 of 3. #forest #forests #nature #tree #trees #treesofinstagram #restoration #forestry #forester #ecology #ecosystem #environment #stem #love"

22.7K views10 months ago

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Ethan Tapper on Instagram: "For landowners, tree mortality can seem like a disaster. To foresters, ecologists and biologists, though, it can be really exciting — allowing even-aged forests and monocultures to become more diverse, complex and resilient and to provide better habitat for wildlife! #trees #tree #treesofinstagram #forests #forest #woods #death #change #ecology #ecosystem #environment #wildlife #habitat #forester #nature"

597.9K viewsMay 27, 2024

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Ethan Tapper on Instagram: "Tell me your conservation success story! When you’re caring for ecosystems in the face of seemingly endless challenges, it’s easy to put your head down and grind and to forget how far we’ve come — and to forget to tell the others what is possible. Let’s change that! I’ll go first. #forest #forestry #forester #nature #restoration #work #conservation #ecosystem #equipment #management #stem #love"

110.5K viewsMar 20, 2025

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Ethan Tapper on Instagram: "How can we help forests “be themselves?” This is a video that I’m reposting from 2024, that speaks to this story that I see repeated across this landscape, again and again — these forests that are defined by their agricultural history, and haven’t yet had time to find their way back to how they have been on this landscape for millennia. Sometimes we can let forests go their own way, and sometimes it’s important to recognize the depth and the breadth of the changes tha

108.6K views7 months ago

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Ethan Tapper on Instagram: "Why did I name my land “Bear Island?” In How to Love a Forest I talk so much about my land — Bear Island — but I never go into exactly how it ended up with this name. So in this (windy) video, I get into it! #forest #forests #name #names #placenames #nature #forester #land #woods #stem #vermont"

22.1K viewsApr 7, 2025

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Introducing a revolutionary conservation tool — the shovel! One of the images I think of when I picture the weirdos (myself included) that are dedicated, modern forest stewards is us walking around in the pouring rain with a shovel. Forest management infrastructure is integral to our ability to care for and restore forests, and just walking around with a shovel in the rain can save roads and trails from eroding (causing us to lose them and contributing to degradation of water quality and aquatic

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Ethan Tapper Inspires the Next Generation of Environmental Stewards at VTSU

47 views6 months ago

YouTubeVermont State University

Ethan Tapper on Instagram: "Come with me as I “cruise” a forest! “Cruising” is the word that foresters use for the process of gathering data about a forest. It often starts by generating a basic map of the forest, on which we overlay a grid of data points. When we arrive at the forest, we navigate to each of those data points (I use a compass and an app on my phone to navigate) and at each one we collect data about the trees that are there. Most people that collect data in ecosystems will use “f

32.3K views5 months ago

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Why do we remove invasive plants from our forests? 7 years ago, Bear Island had one of the worst invasive plant infestations I’d ever seen. In this ~ 3.5 minute video I talk about my rationale for removing invasive plants, and even making the compromise to use herbicide on them. In my own journey as an ecosystem manager, no one ever told me this — that to remove these invasives is an act of profound responsibility, a radical expression of love for ecosystems and biodiversity. Check it out! #fore

243 viewsApr 16, 2024

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