Trees are the only crop that takes a lifetime to grow, sits in place while it appreciates, and can be removed in a morning by someone with a chainsaw and a bad map. This article explains the law that follows from those facts. It covers timber sale contracts and the difference between lump sum and pay-as-cut arrangements, why standing timber is an interest in land, and the reservations and deed exceptions that separate timber from the ground beneath it. It develops timber trespass and the treble and double damages statutes nearly every State has enacted, why they exist, and what distinguishes willful cutting from a good-faith boundary error. It covers state forest practices regulation, the water quality and endangered species overlays, and logging safety. It closes with wildfire liability — the theories that reach utilities, landowners, and contractors, the doctrines that shield government defendants, and why these cases have become among the largest in American tort law.