When Jim and Sally Belcher planned a goodbye party for their 100-year-old Cottonwood they didn't expect 60 people to show up.

Starting July 14, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) will begin hazardous tree removal along Highway 140 between mile post 62 and 72 within the Fremont-Winema National Forest.

Earth may be alive: not as the ancients saw her — a sentient Goddess with a purpose and foresight— but alive like a tree. A tree that quietly exists, never moving except to sway in the wind, yet ...