A Logging Company Clear-Cut 5,000 Acres Around a Little Boy's Tree Farm—Then Came for His Trees

The Last Field

When Cascade Timber Holdings clear-cut 5,000 acres around Owen Marsh's family tree farm in Wahkiakum County, Washington, they planted orange survey flags on four of his trees. Owen, thirteen, had seven years of planting notebooks tracking every tree by tag number, including trees 214, 219, 223, and