Research ecologist Nathan L. Stephenson looks over a dead incense cedar tree in a plot of land that ecologists have been studying since 1992 in the Sequoia National Park.

Cutting cedar trees without removal When cost-share programs began to emerge some 25 years ago, the focus was to cut cedar trees. Programs usually only paid cost share for the cutting of the trees.

Standing dead yellow-cedar trees can be seen among the forest in Slocum Arm, Alaska. The trees are dying en masse along parts of the coast as the planet warms. Photograph by Lauren E. Oakes.

Both bills also apply the rule to dead or dying trees and trees posing a threat to people or property. ... MARCH 02: Pollen spread from cedar trees on March 2, 1999, in Mitsuse, Saga, Japan.

It was, after all, a ghost tree. Others refer to the trees as “snags.” They are dead trees with a dead root system. In this case, the 50- to 60-foot port orford cedar most likely died decades ...