The large maple tree stood closest to our backyard in a line of six trees marking a neighbor’s property line. It likely had been planted roughly 50 or so years ...

was in the process of acquiring the dead trees so he could bury them. “His goal was to put one hundred tons in the ground in the fall as a demonstration project and then thousands more tons ...

Dead trees, particularly large ones in streams, play a significant role in carbon storage, with old-growth forests storing four to five times more carbon in stream wood than mature forests.