How to Love a Forest

2024 Finalist for the Vermont Book Awards A tender, fearless debut by a forester writing in the tradition of Suzanne Simard, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Robert Macfarlane.   Only those who love trees should cut them, writes forester Ethan Tapper.   In How to Love a Forest , he 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 pow