The Family Tree

"The female trees tend to make a little more mess in terms of seed production and fruit production, so they would move to male trees, because they aren’t making a mess" said Bill Roesel, a municipal forester in Windsor, Ont. awakened by a racket from the back yard they watched as Steve staggered through the damp grass, hatchet in hand ker-RACK as her right limb shattered from the violent assault the kids quickly returned to their beds, in the dark the tree wept as her leaves fell like summer rain by august she was dead