Tag: dead standing trees
Beetle-killed Trees can be More than Just Dead Wood By Clare Tattersall About 20 years ago, a rice-size insect began to wreak havoc on British Columbia’s interior landscape. In one year alone, 140 cubic metres of mature lodgepole pine were wiped out. These beetles were destroying trees at an alarming rate and left behind a […]
Source: Oregon Forest Research Institute Meet the standing dead. Millions of ghosts charred by fire, ravaged by insects, or dead of thirst. These are Oregon’s “zombie” trees. And according to an analysis commissioned by the Oregon Forest Resources Institute, more than 350 million are standing dead in the 14 million acres of Oregon’s national forests. […]
After doing this for so long we sometimes forget to answer the most common questions. A common question we get is, “so what exactly is dead-standing timber“? Standing dead timber is a tree that has been killed in the forest by a naturally occurring event. The majority of standing dead timber in Montana results from […]