Join Hoosic River Watershed Association for HooRWA’s Annual Meeting followed by a talk by author Ethan Tapper. This event will take place in the Williams College Wege Auditorium and is sponsored by Williams College Environmental Studies Program & the Zilkha Center for the Environment.

7:00pm Brief overview of HooRWA’s 2024 activities and voting of the board
7:15pm What does it mean to love a forest? A talk with author Ethan Tapper followed by Q&A.

In this talk, Ethan Tapper, a forester, author and content creator from Vermont, will draw from his work as a forester and his bestselling 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 towards 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. Ethan’s message is at once compassionate and pragmatic, clear-eyed and hopeful, sobering and inspiring – a powerful new idea for how we can build a world that works for all of its ecosystems and all of its people.

Learn more about the event, and get directions to the auditorium here

DATE: Tuesday, February 11

TIME: 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

LOCATION: Wege Auditorium, Williams College