Within a Forest by Michael Payne

ISBN: 5800137277598

Publisher: Self-Published

Binding: Paperback

Pub Date: 2025

Physical Description: 0.14 lbs, 53 pages

Keep this poetry chapbook close by so that on your next hike, you can open it up and read along with some of the ideas this author had about trees. Hopefully, you will connect with some of the thoughts he's expressed and perhaps compose some of your own poems about the beauty and utility of forests.

Michael Payne grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, the only son of an Oregon logger. Like many people of his baby boomer generation, he was raised in two worlds, with one foot firmly planted in the hills and the other foot reaching out toward a more urban lifestyle. The first of his family to attend college, he received two bachelor's degrees in forestry from Oregon State University. Foresaking the family logging business, he began his forestry career in 1974 as a summer intern in Dallas, Oregon, for Willamette Industries, Inc., a company purchased by Weyerhaeuser in 2002. His entire career has been spent working for these two great forestry industry leaders.