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The Linn County Small Woodlands Assoc. is an active organization. This blog is intended to help members in their woodlands efforts. Look for updates and news about the organization. Stay in touch.

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A Linn County titan has fallen

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By Tim Otis LCSWA President Carpe Diem (Latin: Seize the day , phrase used by the Roman poet Horace to express the idea that one should enjoy life while one can.) A few years ago I read the book “The Wild Trees,” by Richard Preston.  In it, he tells the almost unbelievable story of Steve Sillett (and a few other botanist’s) exploration of the largest and tallest trees in the world.  These are the coast Redwoods of Northern California.  They explored and measured the height of these trees by climbing them.  Many memories and emotions washed past as I read this book.  I was repeatedly amazed that these young explorers did not think “there is nothing new to learn,”did not believe that there was no new place to explore.  They went where others refused to go.  They invented new ways to climb these massive trees with ropes.  On May 11, 1998 Steve Sillett and Michael Taylor pushed, crawled and fell through a part of the Jedediah Smith Redwood State Park...
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Otis tree tour touts history, family efforts

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Three generations of Tim and Kathy Otis’ family helped tell the story of a historic family tree farm — as the Linn County Small Woodlands Association honored its annual tree farmers of the year. The Otis family hosted the July 6 afternoon tour and potluck picnic on property off Ingram Road near Waterloo. The tree farm property has been in family ownership for more than 150 years. Historic photos, maps of the property and the property’s forest management plan were on display for visitors. Otis family children Steve and Erin spoke about the trials and tribulations of ancestor Capt. William Ingram traveling from the East Coast through treacherous Nicaragua and then up the Columbia River to Oregon City in the early 1850s. Tim and Kathy Otis, with much help from family, manage more than 370 acres of forest land in the Middle Ridge area between Brownsville and Lebanon. Their family holdings include 135 acres of farmland and 25 acres of restored riparian woodlands along the Calap...
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Frost poem rings true 100 years later

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LCSWA President's column by Tim Otis The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Since Robert Frost penned these words in the summer of 1915, people have argued about what they mean.  No doubt we all wonder whether the decision we are making now is the best one.  Whe...
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