Ethan Tapper
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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And so the ability of these forests to in the long term be that climate solution is dependent on their ability to be healthy.
Right.
To photosynthesize the ability of trees and plants to be healthy and happy.
And so it's also important as we think about long term climate solutions to recognize that our ability to keep these forests healthy.
is integral to their ability to help us regulate climate change.
As I mentioned a moment ago, by far, the biggest threat is deforestation because there are all these other threats that threaten forests as they are.
But if we can't keep forests as forests, we can't do anything.
You know, and even in my home state of Vermont, teeny tiny little state, you know, we're losing more than 10,000 acres of forest land a year.
And so I think that that should be where our primary focus is on, is protecting forests from forest loss.
I know that sometimes it can be more exciting to do things like protest forest management, logging, right?
But in reality, deforestation and forest fragmentation, the conversion of forests to other things is a far greater threat to forests and the biodiversity they support in every part of them.
Forests are naturally resilient.
They are these systems really that are, you know, they're not destabilized by these natural disturbances by, you know, on a normal scale, wind events and forest fires and things like that, as they've been happening across our landscape for thousands of years.
That's normal.
You know, that's what it means to be a forest is to change.
And the way that they express that resilience is when those things happen, yes, trees die, but the forest regenerates.
And there are actually so many species of organisms and so many vital natural processes that are supported not just by the life of trees, but by those mortality events.
I think one of the things that I really had to accept about forests, right, is that we may never fully understand them.
You know, they are just these incredibly diverse and dynamic systems and they are inherently mysterious.
And so I think that accepting that, you know, I think when I first started studying forests, I was like, I'm just going to figure them out.
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