The Forest Year by Ethan Tapper

The Forest Year follows a forest and its steward through a year of life, exploring forest ecology, biodiversity, and climate change while reflecting on what it means to stay-to root ourselves in place, in community, and in the ecosystems that sustain us in a time of profound change.

As in Tapper's first book, How to Love a Forest, the tone is meditative, intelligent, hopeful, and powerful, weaving complex scientific and ecological concepts with beautiful narrative prose, making nuanced ideas easy to understand and deeply resonant. Both place-based and practice-driven, Tapper writes not as an armchair philosopher or academic, but as a working forester stewarding real forests in real time, blending emotional insight with ecological rigor. A moving account of what it means to root oneself in an ecosystem, to persist in the face of change, and to love a place through work, compromise, sacrifice, humility, and attention.

• Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781643266510
• 272 pages
• Published by Timber Press
• Published on October 06, 2026