Ep. 15 - How to Love a Forest with Ethan Tapper

In this week's episode, we borrow the title of guest Ethan Tapper's award-winning book and discuss How to Love a Forest. Ethan is an author, forester, ecologist, and naturalist blessed with an incredible ability to communicate the nuances of forest management, conservation, and our relationships with ecosystems. In this conversation, we discuss:   What does it really mean to take care of our forests? The difference between a conservationist and a preservationist mindset. Ethan's thoughts and experience using herbicides as a conservation tool. The emotional tug of war between cutting a tree, but loving a forest or shooting a deer and yet loving the species. It takes a sacrifice and compromise to build a healthy forest ecosystem. Why Ethan loves trees, but loves forests more. Choosing to do nothing is a bigger act of negligence in conservation than active forest management. The reality that our forest products market is dying and the impact that has on wildlife. How Ethan would fix our struggling forest products market, implement landscape-level forest management, and increase our biodiversity.   Follow Ethan on Facebook Follow Ethan on Instagram Follow Ethan on YouTube         Follow Us On Instagram   Like Us on Facebook   Subscribe to our YouTube   Ruffed Grouse Billboard