A Walk in the Woods

Make sure you have your hiking boots ready for a short field trip in Great Mountain Forest with author and conservationist Brian Donahue, author of Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests, and GMF Executive Director Mike Zarfos. Learn about “worst first” forestry and the connection between America’s houses and local woodlands.

*Registration required – limited to 20 people.

Meet at the Great Mountain Forest Sugar House, top of Windrow Road.

Praise for Slow Wood:

“Beautiful, insightful, and written for the ages, Slow Wood asks us to stop seeing the woods as a warehouse for future two by fours or a living painting. Instead, Brian Donahue asks us to use trees as the best way to know them, appreciate them, and conserve them.”—Steven Stoll, author of Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

“These are enjoyable and very much informative tales of one family’s journey along the right path. Using local wood, timber framing, and masonry heaters, does it get any better?”—Jack A. Sobon, author of Hand Hewn: The Traditions, Tools, and Enduring Beauty of Timber Framing

“Brian Donahue makes a passionate and innovative case for the responsible use of forests as a place to ground a sustainable future.”

—Nancy Langston, author of Climate Ghosts and Sustaining Lake Superior

“Slow Wood is an honest and elegantly written work that explains the tie between forest use and house construction, and shows how to live more productive, less environmentally costly, and more beautiful lives.”

—Mark Fiege, author of The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States

“An engaging and thought-provoking insight into nature, community, and human responsibility to both that draws from Donahue’s deep knowledge of history, ecology, and conservation and lifelong commitment to working and living the land of farms and forests.”

—David R. Foster, author of A Meeting of Land and Sea: Nature and the Future of Martha’s Vineyard