Interesting read with elements of a poetic style. It felt to me like contemplation on dichotomies - being a consulting forester marking trees for logging and loving a home forest… being a hunter and loving the ecosystem of a forest… is human interference a good thing… contemplative… interesting. Thank you to the author. Thank you to #netgalley and the publisher for an ARC.

I really enjoyed reading this book, it was more of a memoir than I realized it would be but that wasn't a bad thing. It was really neat reading about his love and experiences with the forest and how it came to be. I myself am a nature lover so there was a lot to be appreciated in this book. I felt like his writing kept me engaged through it as well.

How to Love a Forest read more like a memoir than I initially thought it would based on the description. However, it was a really enjoyable book and the author's passion for the forests of our world shined throughout! The author tells his story of how he became a forester and how he is working to restore his own forest to its pre-colonial state. I think this book would make a great gift for those who have wooded land and those who live forests.

A beautiful, heart felt work. Tapper is gifted with use of language. One of my favorite works on nature since Wendell Berry. A truly perfect piece of art.

I was hoping to like it a bit more. It was very moving and interesting at times, so overall I would rate it three stars.

You know that meme where the person takes a sip and is like, "No" and then a second later their facials expression is more like, "Maybe, it's pretty good?" I waffled back and forth with this book. In some ways, I love it. In other ways, I struggled with it. If you didn't come to the book for the author's reflection (more memoir) you might not get what you want out of this book. It's very lyrical.