VTASLA Doug Crowell Lecture- Ethan Tapper- "How to Love a Forest"

Date: 11/5/26 6:00 PM
Website: www.vtasla.org
Location: Burlington, VT

The Vermont Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects present the 2026 Doug Crowell Lecture featuring local forester and author Ethan Tapper and his talk "How to Love a Forest". The lecture is free and open to the public and will take place at the Great Room at Main Street Landing, 60 Lake Street, Burlington, VT. Doors are at 5:45pm and the lecture is at 6pm. Following the lecture please join Ethan and VTASLA to celebrate the creation of the Vermont Landscape Architecture Education Fund (VLAEF). To attend virtually, please go to www.vtasla.org to register

Ethan Tapper is a forester, ecologist, 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.

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