Slow Wood: Having our Forest and Cutting it Too

Next up in the Berkshire Nature Talk Series: 

Slow Wood: Having Our Forest and Cutting it Too 

Join us on Friday, October 17th at 7 PM at the West Stockbridge Historical Society as Professor Brian Donahue presents a radical approach to healing the relationship between humans and forests through responsible, sustainable use of our local Berkshire woodlands. Drawing from his acclaimed book Slow Wood and his personal experience building a timber frame home using trees from his own land, Professor Donahue will explore how we can address the modern housing crisis while protecting our region's diverse forests. Rather than relying on lumber from global extraction systems, he advocates for “worst first” forestry—a sustainable practice that allows us to have both healthy forests and the wood we need for building.

In this talk focused specifically on the Berkshires, Donahue will share stories of our local trees—sugar maple, black cherry, black birch, and hemlock—and…