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I store the keepers in the garage. Some say a year per inch of diameter, if the wood was cut green. For green wood, if the stick is nice enough to warrant the expense, I have a PVC tube that I use to immerse it in Pentacryl wood stabilizer. That is supposed to penetrate the wood, and replace much of the water in the cells, thereby decreasing the shrinkage and checking. I haven't done that in a year, but the few sticks that I treated that way turned out great. One of my favorite everyday hiking sticks is a beech that is beautiful primarily because the bark remains firmly attached. I think that the Pentacryl may have something to do with that.