Living with Forests: Essays on Stewardship - Essay #1: Forests Are a Verb

Living with Forests: Essays on Stewardship

Understanding Forests as Living Processes, and Our Place Within Them - Told Through the Lens of a Late-Successional Forester

These essays explore how forests function, how stewardship works in practice, and how our relationships with forests take shape over time. Drawn from years of working in and with forests, and from conversations with people who care deeply about them, they are offered as part of an ongoing effort to understand how people and forests live well together. Some of what follows may feel familiar, and some may feel new, but each essay invites reflection on the living processes of forests and our place within them.

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Essay #1: Forests Are a Verb

Reframing forests as dynamic ecological systems shaped by disturbance, renewal, and time—and exploring stewardship through the lens of living processes.