«David Liittschwager straddled his green cubic - foot frame over
a decaying deadfall log in the Hallett Nature Sanctuary, a three - acre fenced - off area at the southern edge of New York's Central Park.
A second thing to notice is that when one of the larger «grandfather» trees dies, and eventually falls, is that the
deadfall, which for all of the world resembles a train wreck with sections of trunk the size of railcars stretching for hundreds of feet across the forest floor, can persist in this slowly
decaying state for hundreds of years.