Timber! Removing a dead tree. September 4, 2024 at 4:00 a.m. by Karen Rice ... Some homeowners have equipment and experience to remove small trees themselves. If you do so, ...

Still, the biodiversity boost from retaining dead trees is probably small in a private backyard environment. “I think it would help,” Garbelotto says.

Q: My homeowners association requires a replacement for a dying plum tree with something similar. I want to plant a more drought-tolerant, low-maintenance small tree.

The amount of forest with problems is only a small fraction of the overall 22 million acres state officials looked at, but it is slightly above the 10-year average ...