Felling big is dangerous work, especially when the tops of the mighty trees are entangled with creepers. - Richard St. Barbe Baker

The good will place es to attract helpful birds, and farmers will do well to plant and protect to provide nesting places for their feathered friends.
Birds are great distributors of tree seeds ...

... during this expedition I was to trudge through sand wastes which had been my forest haunts when I had been in Africa thirty years ago. Here one could actually see all the process of degradation, from high forest through the stages of orchard-bush and savannah to drifting sand.
When the forest is cleared for farming or other reasons, the debris is sooner or later burned up. Here we were standing on land where the which had been accumulated over thousand of years had been destroyed in a single season.

Through Chief Josiah Njonjo, my righthand man, I called for volunteers, for men who would swear before , the High God, that they would protect the native forest, plant so many native trees each year and take care of trees everywhere. The volunteers were called the Watu wa Miti () ...