Episode Details

In this interview, Dave weaves together the story of white oak trees, the Kentucky bourbon boom, and his personal discovery of how a tourist industry he thought was good for the economy of his state is actually an enormous problem for white oak forests.

To book Dave's Bourbon Barrel Roadshow, email davecooper928@yahoo.com, or call 859-447-6534 for more information.

Resources mentioned during the interview:

• White Oak Initiative - An coalition of groups including industry leaders, private landowners, academic institutions, and government agencies, working together for the long term sustainability of America's white oak dominant forests.
• Finding The Mother Tree - A book which helps us understand that forests are a complicated, interdependent circle of life, connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own.