Big Picture Theatre, 48 Carroll RD, Waitsfield, VT
Thursday, October 19, 6:30 PM
What does it mean to love a forest?
Vermont’s forests are highly-altered -- young, simple and degraded, missing many critical habitats, features and functions that they need to stay healthy, abundant and resilient as they head into an uncertain future. As we consider what it means to care for forests at this moment in time, it is clear that radical action is needed to protect their biodiversity and their ecological integrity, and to help them build resilience and adaptability as they prepare for the pervasive influence of global change.
Ecological forestry is a reimagined vision of forest management – one that seeks to manage forests “like they manage themselves.” Ecological forestry is regenerative in nature, using forest management to emulate natural disturbances and natural processes, to help forests become more diverse, complex and resilient and even to make Vermont’s young, simple forests more like old growth forests. It does so while also providing local, renewable resources – wood – which have global biodiversity and human-rights benefits.
Ethan will give a one-hour talk about what ecological forestry is, what it looks like, and why it is so crucial at this moment in time.
For More Information on Ecological Forestry for a Changed and Changing World