Leave a dead tree alone? If it's not threatening people or property, the best thing for wildlife and ecology is to just let ...

Trees are the lifeblood of the forest. While alive, they form their body; as snags (standing dead trees), they provide ...

Walk into any woods in New England (or the world) and you are bound to find standing dead trees. Depending upon where you live and how you view natural ecosystems these can be viewed either as ...

Mark Harmon crouches low next to log number 219: a moss-covered western hemlock tree trunk, five meters long, lying dead on the ground in the lush green woods. It’s marked by a thin aluminum tag. The ...