How are acorns baby oak trees’ “lunchboxes”??? Pre-order The Forest Year at your local independent bookstore or at EthanTapper.com/forestyear #tree #trees #oak #forest #forests #nature #plant #plants #science #stem

Have you heard of the chimney swift?! This bird is somehow both an old-growth animal and now a human-dependent animal — here’s how: #bird #birds #animal #animals #wildlife #nature #oldgrowth #tree #trees #habitat #science #stem

A short reading from The Forest Year— about resilience and what it means to be a “steward” Pre-order The Forest Year today from your local indie bookseller or EthanTapper.com/forestyear #book #books #author #authors #forest #nature #stewardship #resilience #love

What’s the best way to support authors?? Pre-order their book!! Ok ok ok so one of the authors that you can support by pre-ordering is me! Pre-order The Forest Year from your local independent bookseller or EthanTapper.com/forestyear today! #author #authors #book #books #forest #nature

The amazing story of the tule elk, and how it was saved from extinction! #animal #animals #wildlife #elk #deer #history #naturalhistory #nature #restoration #science #stem

Here’s a birding tip I wish someone had told me when I started birding! #bird #birds #birding #birder #birdwatch #birdwatching #birdwatcher #wildlife #nature #animal #animals

Forest forensics time! How can we tell what happened in this forest??? #forest #tree #trees #forester #naturw #ecology #history #naturalhistory #science #stem

How can we learn to identify individual birds??! Birding is a big focus of my new book — The Forest Year: Finding Hope in a World Worth Saving — which is now available for preorder at the link in my bio! #bird #birds #wildlife #nature #birding #animal #animals #spring

Have you heard about the eastern elk? And the efforts to restore it?? #animal #animals #wildlife #nature #elk #restoration #science #stem

Springtime is a joy — and also a responsibility! #birds #flowers #plants #wildlife #seasons #phenology #nature #life Preorder The Forest Year: Finding Hope in a World Worth Saving today at your local indie bookseller or at EthanTapper.com/forestyear

Time to witness the wonder of spring migration! #bird #birds #birding #birder #animal #animals #nature #science #stem

What are spring “ephemeral wildlflowers”??? And why are they “ephemeral”? And why are they every naturalist’s favorite flowers? #plant #plants #flower #flowers #nature #botany #spring #forest #science

Exciting news! My new book — The Forest Year: Finding Hope in a World Worth Saving — is now available for preorder!! Here’s some more about it. Learn more and pre-order at: ethantapper.com/forestyear #book #author #forest

More details here 👇👇👇 Here are 5 North American wildlife species that were named wrong! #wildlife #animals #animal #nature #science #stem

How can the way a tree branches reveal its history — when the branches aren’t there anymore?? #tree #trees #forest #history #naturalhistory #ecology #science #stem

Why is bird migration timed with when trees leaf-out?? With spring coming earlier and earlier, there is a body of research, looking at how climate change can disrupt these ancient relationships, co-emergences, and synchronies, especially between migratory birds and insects. #birds #trees #bugs

Have you heard about the introduced, problematic, Asian mini-elk — the sika deer? #deer #elk #wildlife #animal #animals #nature #science #stem

Why don’t tree flowers look like flower? And why are they flowering right now?! #tree #trees #plant #plants #flower #flowers #nature #forest #phenology #science #stem

Are horses native to North America?? Yes! And also, no! #horse #horses #wildlife #nature #animal #animals #history #naturalhistory

This is one of the creepiest stories that I’ve come across in a long time… Here’s the story of the New England Highland Fox! #fox #wildlife #animal #ai #hallucination #nature #biology #science #stem

How to Love a Forest is now out on paperback!! So excited to be able to give you this (New England Book Award-winning) book in a way that’s even easier to love. Pick it up from your local indie bookstore today! And you can still get signed hardcovers from EthanTapper.com !! #book #author #love

What’s the most harmful introduced species on earth? Many would say that’s it’s the domestic cat! And one simple thing we can do to help protect our birds is to keep cats inside. #cats #cat #bird #birds #nature #ecology #ecosystem #wildlife

Have moose ever been domesticated?? #wildlife #animal #animals #moose #nature #history #naturalhistory #science #stem

At the same time that white-tailed deer were nearly extinct in the east, there were overpopulated at the Pisgah National Forest. Here’s the story of the “Fawn Farm” of Pisgah — and how it helped restore deer to the east! #wildlife #animal #animals #nature #restoration #deer #science #stem #history

What’s a better way to cut firewood? #forest #forestry #forester #wildlife #habitat #restoration #tree #trees #nature

Ever seen a timberdoodle dance? “Timberdoodle” is another name for the American woodcock (Scolopax minor) — other names for this bird include the bog chicken, bogsucker, and mudbat. It is such a weird animal. Meep! #wildlife #bird #birds #nature #science #wildlife #woodcock

How is the way that we think about ecosystems “delusional”?? #forest #ecosystem #ecology #restoration #science #stem

Is tapping trees for maple sugaring harmful to the trees?? #tree #trees #forest #forest #forestry #forester #maple #maplesyrup #vermont #science #stem

How do I decide which trees to cut?? Here’s a conceptual primer on some of the nuances that go into leveraging tree mortality for forest restoration! #restoration #forestry #ecology #forester #ecologist #forest #ecosystem #science #stem

A very prickly tale of convergent evolution in our spiniest of critters! #wildlife #animal #animals #evolution #ecology #adaptation #porcupine #hedgehog #critter #science #stem

See description for details 👇👇👇 Here’s a few moments from this winter’s restoration work at Bear Island (without trending audio lol). #forest #forestry #restoration #nature #forester #work #management

No shade to the sugarhouse I made that’s right behind me this whole time lol #forester #snowshoe #craft #crafts #snowshoes

Do coyotes kill deer? And if they do, does it impact deer populations?? Anyone who tells you that this is a yes or no question doesn’t really get it — it’s nuanced and context-dependent and scale dependent and weird. Check it out! #wildlife #ecology #nature #deer #coyote #ecosystem #science #stem

What’s your vote — predators or plants? (trick question — it has to be both!) #ecology #wildlife #restoration #habitat #biodiversity #ecosystem #science

When you make 150 videos a year about really complex topics — you’re gonna screw some stuff up. My issues come when I’m moving too fast, trying to make videos too short (and so I leave stuff out) or trying to oversimplify stuff. I do my best! #forest #ecology #nature #science #creator #wildlife

The armadillos are coming! Here’s some more on the range expansion of the nine-banded armadillo/AKA Mexican long-nosed armadillo #wildlife #animal #animals #nature #ecology #science #stem #armadillo

Did you know that there’s a moth that only eats keratin from the shells of gopher tortoises?? The gopher tortoise shell moth — Ceratophaga vicinella. This world is magic. What will we do to protect it? #wildlife #animal #animals #ecology #science #stem #magic #love

Dillos After Dark: A look into the strange reproductive ecology of nine-banded armadillos. There’s so much more to say but I don’t have enough characters! But here’s a funny and (I think) interesting video? #wildlife #animal #animals #ecology #nature #science #armadillo #life

What’s the subnivean zone? Here’s a little bit about this mysterious world beneath the snow. #forest #nature #wildlife #animals #snow #winter #science #stem #ecology

If you know what to look for, you can learn a ton about forests just by looking at maps! Here’s an example of my “forest detective computer magic” (lol) #forest #forestry #tree #trees #ecology #ecosystem #nature #science #stem

What’s the weirdest animal in the world? Here are 5 mind-blowing facts about the nine-banded armadillo (aka Mexican long-nosed armadillo)! This one has historically been called Dasypus novemcinctus, now mostly called as D. mexicanus #wildlife #critter #animal #animals #nature #armadillo

It would be impossible for me to express all the things that I consider when making trees, but here are a few things that I think about! If you want to read more about this project, check out my book How to Love a Forest — with a primary goal of protecting and sustaining biodiversity. #forestry

Have you heard about turkey drives?? #wildlife #animal #animals #history #naturalhistory #farm #farming #turkey

Have you heard about California’s miniature, tree-climbing, endemic island foxes? Such much more to say about these guys but here’s a start! #wildlife #animal #animals #nature #science #stem #fox

Here’s the follow-up to my video about red wolves from yesterday! Saving America’s “other wolf” — the red wolf! #wildlife #animal #animals #nature #ecology #restoration #rewilding #science #stem #wolf #wolves

Who doesn’t love an underdog? This is the story of North America’s “other” wolf (and my favorite wolf) — the American red wolf. #wildlife #animal #animals #wolf #wolves #nature #science #stem #ecology

How do tree seeds get around? Trees have many different remarkable adaptations for dispersing their seeds across the landscape. Here are some of my faves! #tree #trees #nature #ecology #ecosystem #forester #plant #plants #science #stem

What’s a “coywolf?” The modern history of canids in North America is a mess — extirpation, hybridization, introgression — sometimes called “canid soup.” Here’s some nuance about eastern coyotes, which are one part of the story! #wildlife #animal #animals #science #stem #nature #wolf #coyote

Why I was wrong about white cedar (Thuja occidentalis)!! #tree #trees #forest #nature #science #stem #forestry #forester #deer #oldgrowth

Can you name all of America’s wolves? Our understanding of the history of our modern historic canids is a mess, and constantly evolving, but here’s a video about what we know (or what we think we know)! #wildlife #animal #animals #wolf #wolves #nature #science #stem