Woodland Stewardship Online is a wonderful resource for woodland owners. The theme this month is making trees pay. Two chapters in the Woodland Stewardship book, Timber Marketing & Timber Harvesting immediately come to mind. These chapters walk landowners through the ins and outs of marketing and harvesting timber in the Lake States. In addition to discussing the various aspects of marketing and harvesting timber each chapter also includes activities landowners can undertake to begin the timber selling process.

Guest post by Oregon WOWnet member Fiona Rhea

Twin Tree
by Fiona Rhea

Two seeds landed here because that is how God meant it to be,
Nourished from the heavens above, together they grew like twins, almost inseparably.
Alas, one grew tall, the other branched off from the straight and narrow call.
Yet in later years, changed it's spin to return next to its twin.

Their souls having found each other, touched  by the breeze,
rejoiced by the heavenly chime of the bristling leaves,
and with their branches they caress one another
like sweethearts who love one another.

Now together they stand
to give each other a helping hand