Ethan Tapper News Today

CHITTENDEN COUNTY – It might seem like Chittenden County forester Ethan Tapper’s job involves helping trees flourish or extracting their wood for profit.

Forests are a process not a destination.

While some people call all evergreen trees pines, pines are actually a distinct group of closely related trees in the pinus genus. While Vermont is home to four species of

CHITTENDEN COUNTY — The story of the spongy moths in the United States began with a mistake in 1869.

Ethan Tapper, award-winning forester for Chittenden County, will lead residents of Shelburne through the LaPlatte River Park to show how diverse riverine and upland forest habitats support a wide range

Each of our native species occupies an ecological niche, influencing the ecosystem around it in different ways. The more we learn about forests, the more we discover how critical each

Each of Vermont’s tens of thousands of native species fills an ecological niche, influencing its environment and the species around it in different ways. While an important component of managing

Scientists from the University of Illinois recently studied the effects of removing bats from a forest, finding that a forest without bats had three times as many insects and five

I am often asked what books I would recommend to folks interested in learning more about forests and forestry, and so for my column this month I will recommend a

Aspens, also known as poplars or “popple,” are trees in the Populus genus. Vermont is home to four species of poplar: bigtooth aspen (Populus grandidentata), eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides), balsam