The Forest Year: Finding Hope in a World Worth Saving

Tapper's groundbreaking first book How to Love a Forest (called "beautifully written" by Bill McKibben) offered an optimistic vision for tending the woods.His new book, The Forest Year, lives inside the practice of staying, caretaking, and paying attention.Following a forest and its steward through a year of life, the book explores flowers, birds, forest ecology, and biodiversity while reflecting on what it means to be rooted in place, community, and the ecosystems that sustain us at a time of profound change.The Forest Year is a meditative and lyrical ode to the land, 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 an 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 persist in the face of change an