Exploration 44 | Journey in Place | Witness Trees

Guest exploration by Sheila Knell.

Photo by Sheila Knell.

Witness trees were often utilized to mark property boundaries in areas where placing surveying stakes would be too difficult or in places where trees would last longer than wooden markers.

Here poet Robert Frost writes of such a tree.

BEECH

Where my imaginary line

Bends square in woods an iron spine

And pile of real rocks have been fou…