HooRWA Annual Meeting and What does it mean to love a forest Talk

Join HooRWA on Tuesday, February 11 at 7:00pm for HooRWA’s Annual Meeting followed by a talk by author Ethan Tapper. This event will take place in the Williams College Wege Auditorium and is sponsored by Williams College Environmental Studies Program & the Zilkha Center for the Environment.

7:00pm Brief overview of HooRWA’s 2024 activities and voting of the board
7:15pm What does it mean to love a forest? A talk with author Ethan Tapper followed by Q&A.

In this talk, Ethan Tapper, a forester, author and content creator from Vermont, will draw from his work as a forester and his bestselling book — How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World — to discuss what it means to care for forests and other ecosystems at this moment in time. How do we respond to the harmful legacies of the past? How do we use our species’ incredible power to heal rather than to harm? How do we reach towards a better future? In a time in which many believe that “protecting” ecosystems means protecting them from ourselves, Ethan argues that humans must take action to help ecosystems heal and to move into a more abundant future. Ethan’s message is at once compassionate and pragmatic, clear-eyed and hopeful, sobering and inspiring – a powerful new idea for how we can build a world that works for all of its ecosystems and all of its people.

Directions to Wege Auditorium and Parking

Wege Auditorium is on the ground floor of the Williams College Chemistry building in the Unified Science Center and is most easily accessed by entering the Morley Scientific Laboratory through the Atrium, going up the ramp or the stairs. turning right, and going straight along the corridor almost to the end. Wege Auditorium is TCL Room 123, on the right just before the end of that corridor. To find Morley, the Atrium, and parking suggestions, see below.

The Morley Scientific Laboratory is part of the Unified Science Center, which is located between the end of Lab Campus Drive and Hoxsey Street in Williamstown Massachusetts. Lab Campus Drive runs south from Main Street (Route 2) just opposite the large white First Congregational Church and just west of Spring Street. Hoxsey Street runs south from Main Street one block west of Lab Campus Drive just opposite the FacultyHouse/Alumni Center at 968 Main Street.

The Unified Science Center can be found labeled as”Science Center” in the center of the Campus Map. Clicking on the center of the map reveals an expanded version with street names. Descriptions and pictures of the science buildings themselves can be found here.

Morley can be accessed by walking north up Spring Street and turning left on Bank Street, by walking east from Hoxsey Street, or by walking south from Route 2 west of Spring Street. The most convenient access is to walk south from Route 2 on Lab Campus Drive and enter Morley through the glass-fronted Atrium pictured at the right. Unfortunately, there is little or no parking available on Lab Campus Drive. Parking is available on Williamstown streets, in the municipal lot at the south end of Spring Street, or in the parking garage off Whitman Street just north of the ’62 Performing Arts Center. Schow Science Library is accessed by going into the Atrium and down the stairs at the left or east side of the Atrium.