If you have ever walked in the woods and wondered about the history around you, join Tom Wessels for a talk about how to decipher the evidence in our forested landscape on Sunday, Oct. 2, at 2:30 p.m. at the Temple Town Hall. Examining the shapes of trees, scars on their trunks, the pattern of decay in stumps, the construction of stone walls, and the lay of the land, Tom will teach you how to piece together the stories and history of our local forests. This program is based on Tom’s book, “Reading the Forested Landscape, A Natural History of New England”, which teaches us to read a landscape the way we might solve a mystery.
This special opportunity is sponsored by the Friends of the Temple Library and the Temple Conservation Commission.
Tom Wessels is an ecologist and founding director of the master’s degree program in Conservation Biology at Antioch University New England. Presently, he is Faculty Emeritus. Tom has conducted landscape ecology and sustainability workshops throughout the United States for over 30 years.