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Thursday, April 3, 2024, 7:00 pm, MJR Theater @ Thetford Academy, 304 Academy Road, Thetford, VT Ethan Tapper is a forester, digital creator, and the bestselling author of How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World. For more than a decade, Ethan has been recognized as a thought-leader and a disruptor in the worlds of forestry, conservation, and ecosystem stewardship, winning multiple regional and national awards for his work. His message of relationship, responsibility and hope reaches millions of people each year through his writing, his social media channels with tens of thousands of followers, and the dozens of walks, talks and keynotes that he delivers across North America each year. In his personal life, Ethan works, writes, hunts, birds at Bear Island, his 175-acre working forest, homestead, orchard and sugarbush, runs three small businesses – Bear Island Forestry, Bear Island Consulting and Bear Island Maple – and plays in his 10-piece punk band, The Bubs.
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Thursday, April 10, 2024, 7 pm, New Suns Center (former United Church of North Thetford), 5470 US 5, Thetford, VT Al Freeman is the Climate Forester for Vermont Forests, Parks, and Recreation as well as a PhD Candidate at the University of Vermont, studying ecophysiology and forest management. She serves as a resource on climate adaptation and carbon science for both private and state lands and works to incorporate climate-smart strategies in state forest management planning.
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Thursday, April 17, 2024, 7:00 PM, MJR Theater @ Thetford Academy, 304 Academy Road, Thetford, VT Donn Downey is a consulting forester from Thetford Vermont who manages public and private land across the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire. He also develops forestry software used by private consultants, non profits such as the Nature Conservancy and Ruffed Grouse Society, many state agencies, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
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