AI pinpoints aspens and standing dead trees in forests using aerial imagery

Aspens and standing dead trees, which are important to forest biodiversity, can be reliably identified from openly available ...
National Audubon Society

Dead Trees Support a Bounty of Birdlife, but Preserving Them Isn’t Always Clear Cut

We meander through the woods, the whine of mosquitoes in our ears. Mendes plays owl calls—they sound like the squeaks of a ...
Scientific American

The Secret Lives of Dead Trees

Mark Harmon crouches low next to log number 219: a moss-covered western hemlock tree trunk, five meters long, lying dead on the ground in the lush green woods. It’s marked by a thin aluminum tag. The ...
The Columbian

WA forest health survey finds 545,000 acres of stressed or dead trees

A foggy morning at Calispell Meadows on the Colville National Forest in northeast Washington. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Forest Service) More than half a million acres of trees spread across Washington ...
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Hundreds of thousands of Washington state's trees are dead or dying - what's killing them?

Trees upon towering trees make up what Washingtonians know to be one of the most stunning landscapes in the nation. In Shoreline, a towering fir tree was cut down. While beautiful at one time, it's ...