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