CEES Seminar Series and The Cardinal Sustainability

[Natalie Campbell]

The CEES Seminar Series and the Cardinal Sustainability
Summit present:

*Ethan Tapper, *Forester and Author

*Cardinal Sustainability Summit **Keynote Address*


*How to love a forest, **the bittersweet **work of tending a changing world*


*How to Love a Forest* walks us through the fragile and resilient community
that is a forest, introducing us to wolf trees and spring ephemerals, to
the cryptic creatures of the rhizosphere and the necrosphere. It helps us
reimagine what forests are and what it means to care for them. This world,
Tapper writes, is degraded both 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 ecosystems as commodities and opposing claims that
the only true expression of love for the natural world is to leave it alone.


In his tender and fearless literary debut, Tapper proffers a more complex
vision. He writes that we must take action to protect ecosystems, and that
the actions we must take will often be counterintuitive, uncomfortable,
even heartbreaking. In striking prose, he shows how bittersweet acts—like
loving deer and hunting deer, loving trees and felling trees—can be radical
expressions of compassion. In this poetic and visionary book, Tapper weaves
a new land ethic for the modern world, reminding us that what is simple is
rarely true, and what is necessary is rarely easy.


Countless decisions await. There are no perfect solutions; only endless
bittersweet compromises. *How to Love a Forest* offers a clear-eyed,
hopeful vision of a world in which so much is wrong and so much is worth
saving*. *


*Friday April 25th**  5:00**pm. *
*Hudson 106*
*Reception, book sales, and book signing prior to the talk at 4:30*

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