Nature Hour: How to Love a Forest

Lancaster Conservancy

Join us for this virtual presentation to learn about how to care for our forests and ecosystems at this moment in time.

Nature Hour 2025-2026

Nature Hour is a virtual lecture series presented by Lancaster Conservancy, taking place on Thursdays throughout the winter.

<h3>About the Presentation</h3>In this talk, Ethan Tapper, a forester, bestselling author and digital storyteller from Vermont, will draw from his work as a forester and his book How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World to discuss what it means to care for forests and other ecosystems at this moment in time. 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? How do we reach toward a better future? In a time in which many believe that “protecting” ecosystems means protecting them from ourselves, Ethan argues that humans must take action to help ecosystems heal and to move into a more abundant future, and that to do so is an act of care and compassion – of love.Ethan’s message is at once compassionate and pragmatic, clear-eyed and hopeful, sobering and inspiring – a powerful new vision for how we can build a world that works for all of its ecosystems and all of its people. <h3>About Your Presenter</h3>Ethan Tapper is a forester, digital storyteller, and the bestselling author of How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World. For more than a decade, Ethan has been recognized as a thought-leader in the world of ecosystem stewardship, winning numerous regional and national awards for his work. More recently, he has been recognized as a writer – since its publication in 2024, How to Love a Forest has been named the winner of the 2025 New England Book Award for nonfiction and received international acclaim.Ethan’s message of relationship, responsibility and hope reaches millions of people each year through his writing, social media channels with hundreds of thousands of followers, and the hundreds of walks, talks and keynotes that he delivers across North America each year.Ethan works, writes, hunts, birds and runs a small consulting forestry business from his home at Bear Island – his 175-acre working forest, homestead, orchard and sugarbush in Vermont – and plays in his punk band, The Bubs. <h3>About Nature Hour</h3>Nature Hour is a lecture series presented by Lancaster Conservancy, taking place on Thursdays throughout the winter. The one-hour virtual lectures, which include a Q&amp;A with the expert presenter, cover a wide range of conservation, environmental, and nature-related topics impacting our community, region, and world to an audience of all ages of learners.To find out about other events in the series please follow this link: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/untitled-4792136?utm-campaign=social&amp;utm-content=attendeeshare&amp;utm-medium=discovery&amp;utm-term=odclsxcollection&amp;utm-source=cp&amp;aff=odclsxcollection" title="https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/untitled-4792136?utm-campaign=social&amp;utm-content=attendeeshare&amp;utm-medium=discovery&amp;utm-term=odclsxcollection&amp;utm-source=cp&amp;aff=odclsxcollection" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nature Hour Collection 2025/2026</a>To see recordings of past Nature Hour lectures, please visit the Conservancy's YouTube Channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@LancasterConservancy" title="https://www.youtube.com/@LancasterConservancy" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/@LancasterConservancy</a>

<h3>Thank you to our incredible Annual Sponsors for their generous support!</h3>

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