Sentences with phrase «standing dead trees»

The pileated woodpecker is the main pine beetle predator, and it nests only in snags (large standing dead trees).

To gather samples from the Giant Forest trees, the researchers were allowed to collect cross-sections of downed logs and standing dead trees, he said.

That has triggered a variety of activities aimed at reducing the spread of insects infesting drought - weakened and standing dead trees, which are vulnerable to fire.

But then there was a picture of the forests in Alaska that were but standing dead trees, the destruction caused by bark beetles because global warming had failed to freeze the larva.

Not exact matches

It is my fantasy that baobab trees, which elephants love to gouge mercilessly with their tusks, are the reincarnations of dead poachers, doomed to stand forever under the hot African sun, getting punched and ripped by their erstwhile victims.

The beaver lodge is huge, water surrounds a stand of dead trees, and the trees are topped with the stick nests built by a colony of great blue herons.

Together they found groves of weather - beaten, moss - draped dead western red cedar tree trunks standing knee - deep in saltwater, what became known as ghost forests.

Now, more than 7500 hectares of spruce stands are dead, perhaps one - third of all spruce trees in the forest, Hilszczański estimates.

As he talks to me he stands next to the sawed off remains of an ancient tree that tested positive for the bacterium, stroking the new growth sprouting from the top of the supposedly infected, dead stump (see the video below).

Gnarled, dead bristlecone pine trees, which can live to be more than 5,000 years old, stand where young limber pine grow around it.

Quick note on afforestation in California: CA used the irrigation provided by its water project to sustain large groves of fruit and nut trees (whose product had large commercial value); subsequently, many of these trees were sacrificed to enhance the natural environment of the Delta Snail Darter (which has no commercial value), which has resulted in large stands of dead or moribund trees.

Stands of dead hemlock trees can be seen at Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee.

Memories from those way - back times flash up with great particularity — even individual trees, dead since long before the War, remain standing in my mind with every leaf etched distinct down to the pale palmate veins, their whole beings meaningful and bright with color.

Tree trunks still stand, but majority of the terrain is completely dead.

In temperate forests a LOT of the biomass is not in the standing trees — remember, there is far more life in a «dead» tree than in a «living» tree.

Ironically, it is these burning fir trees that pose the only real fire threat to their sequoia symbionts, the burning trunk of a fir leaning up against the sequoia can lead to exactly the type of fire hollowing damage that we observe and that ultimately makes it possible for a dead sequoia to fall over at all, otherwise they might remain standing dead for a thousand years [not much good even for the squirrels].

Quick note on afforestation in California: CA used the irrigation provided by its water project to sustain large groves of fruit and nut trees (whose product had large commercial value); subsequently, many of these trees were sacrificed to enhance the natural environment of the Delta Snail Darter (which has no commercial value), which has resulted in large stands of dead or moribund trees.

In the older dead pine stands, falling trees are a significant threat to firefighters.

Dozens of species live in standing and prone dead trees at various stages of their life cycles.

«So we see vast stands of dead trees, and more forest fires.»