What is it about Dana Farber that makes it such a powerful adversary against cancer?

It's hundreds of Dana Farber researchers and clinicians, making new discoveries inspired by the work of previous Dana Farber discoverers.

At Dana Farber Cancer Institute, nothing is as effective against cancer as a relentless succession of breakthroughs.

Go to Danafarber.org slash stories and see how what we do here changes lives everywhere.

Hello, I'm Dana Taylor, and this is a special episode of USA Today's The Excerpt.

One of your favorite episodes so far this year was our conversation about the book, How to Love a Forest.

This episode originally aired on February 9, 2025.

With climate change, the threat of wildfires, and human encroachment, among other things,

our trees and forests

are in desperate need of guardians. From tropical rainforests often referred to as the lungs of the

planet to the ancient bristlecone pine forest in California's white mountains, home to some of the

oldest living organisms on Earth. What's being done to protect our woodlands? Here to discuss what he's

called the bittersweet work of tending to a changing world is forester and author, Ethan Tapper,

whose book, How to Love It Forest, is available now. Ethan, thanks for joining me.

Thanks so much for having me. Forests are, of course, so much more than trees. There's

an abundance of biodiversity, both in and beneath those canopies. What is your work as a

forester taught you about the balance between plants, animals, microorganisms, not only in the

forest, but on Earth? One of the things that I talk about in how to in the forest, but on earth.

One of the things that I talk about in How to Love a Forest and that I named the first chapter of the book after is this idea of reimagining forests.

So I think that a lot of us, you know, if I asked you, what is a forest?

Everybody would know the answer to that question, you know, and then sort of

if I pressed you on it, everybody would crumble, right? Because we really actually just have this

...