Ethan Tapper
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first heard Jul 2026
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And now what I realize is part of how we figure them out is just recognizing that there are parts of them that may always elude us.
And that's another interesting part of caring for them, right, is we have to have the humility to understand that we may never fully understand these ecosystems, not every piece and every part.
And also, we have to take action anyway to recognize that uncertainty and not have it paralyze us and not have it keep us from doing these really important actions to care for ecosystems because we're so scared that we're going to do something wrong or that we don't understand the, you know, all of the repercussions of whatever actions.
We just need to be humble and to be ourselves resilient.
and willing to fail and willing to change.
That's a really, really important part of how we're going to have a better relationship with ecosystems going forward.
I would hope that in my life that I would help people have a better understanding of forests and other ecosystems of this biosphere and how they work, how they function, how integral they are to our lives.
And for us to understand that, not just mentally, but also in our actions and the way that we treat them, to treat them like the precious things that they are.
And also to help people understand that it can be an act of love to care for them, that we can have a relationship with these ecosystems that is essential and profoundly positive, that we can even be keystone species in these ecosystems.
So my favorite forest by far is my own land, which I call Bear Island.
And I write about it a lot in the book.
It's this forest that when I got here seven years ago, I described it as a forest with every problem that a forest could have.
You know, it had been poorly managed in the past.
Like most of New England's forests, it had been cleared 200 years ago, maintained as a pasture for 100 years.
It had really bad non-native invasive plant problems.
It was dealing with these non-native invasive tree pathogens.
It had deer overpopulation.
It was, you know, eroding soils, pretty much everything that you can imagine.
And the reason I love it so much is that now I have seen it transform.
And through action, I've seen it become this incredibly beautiful and hopeful and abundant ecosystem.
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