208. This Forester’s Radical Ideas Could Save Our Ecosystems! with Ethan Tapper

Our guest today has written a book that my co-founder and daughter - Liesl - read and upon closing the book she exclaimed, “This will become our family bible about how we care about the land and each other. It’s the way the whole world should work! We’re going to read from it to our kids over and over!” OK.. now that’s about as high praise as you can get. The book’s title would lead one to believe its about forests, but join us to see why as beautiful as that part is… there is so much more there!

Chapters

00:00 – Intro & Welcome

04:32 – Ethan's Journey to Forestry

10:52 – The Beauty of Action

13:11 – Persistence in Change

16:22 – Break

18:38 – Metaphors in Conservation

20:05 – Embracing Complexity

25:11 – The "Cathedral" Forest Fallacy

29:15 – Old-Growth Forests and Structural Complexity

34:51 – The Concept of Wolf Trees

42:32 – Freedom in Conservation

48:51 – Conservation Easements

50:54 – Embracing Contradictions

58:01 – Love and Logging

01:01:50 – Final Thoughts