I am marking trees today to be cut and harvested for lumber. This song came Rushing through my head like a buzzing Stihl 450 chain saw. I have dozens of white and yellow pines that were topped by the severe ice storm a few years ago (killing then from the top down) and dozens of white and red oak that have reached full maturity and are dying from the bottom limbs up and getting hollow inside. I hate to do it but I feel it is better to use the resources than let them fall and rot away.



The Trees
Jarvis Branson Cocker, Alex Lifeson, Stephen Patrick Mackey, Candida Doyle, Joyce Kilmer, Geddy Lee, Mark Andrew Webber, Oscar Rasbach, Neil Peart, Nick Banks


There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas

The trouble with the maples
And they're quite convinced they're right
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade

There is trouble in the forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the maples scream 'Oppression!'
And the oaks just shake their heads

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
'The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light'
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe and saw


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https://youtu.be/JnC88xBPkkc