I wrote previously about the importance of ancient trees and associated ‘dead wood’ in local woods, and here is another ...

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 ...

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.