Tom Lautzenheiser says pitch pine trees look kind of like overgrown Bonsai. They're stumpy and weathered, with coarse bark and low branches spiking off at sharp angles. "They're beautiful," he says.

“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. “...Henry David Thoreau When the colonists ...