Ms. Que Banh<p>Dead <a href="https://beige.party/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>trees</span></a> are not wasted timber dollars - they are sources of food for literally thousands of beings in a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/forest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>forest</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ecosystem</span></a>, from tiny microscopic beings to insectivorous birds. Standing dead trees are known as snags, while a fallen dead trees are nurse logs. A cut or natural stump can serve the same <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ecological" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ecological</span></a> function as a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NurseStump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NurseStump</span></a>.</p><p>Nature wastes nothing. If there is a nutrient source to be had, there is a being to benefit from it. Nurse logs, standing snags &amp; nurse stumps play hosts to all sorts of mosses, lichens, fungi, insects &amp; arthropods, many hidden deep inside, as well as other living beings that prey on them.</p><p>Nurse <a href="https://beige.party/tags/stumps" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>stumps</span></a> are still deeply rooted; new plant, tree &amp; fungi life grows out of their tops. Nurse stumps &amp; dead stumps that have no new growth atop are like anchor systems for living trees growing in forests. You destabilize the ecosystem when you remove them from their natural <a href="https://beige.party/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>environment</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/NaturalistNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NaturalistNotes</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Educational" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Educational</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VancouverIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VancouverIsland</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/wilderness" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wilderness</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GetOutside" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GetOutside</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PacificNorthwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PacificNorthwest</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PNW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PNW</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Cascadia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cascadia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VanIsle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VanIsle</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/mosstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mosstodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Wsanec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wsanec</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CommunityForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CommunityForest</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ForestStewardship" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ForestStewardship</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ForestProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ForestProtection</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Saanich" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Saanich</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VictoriaBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VictoriaBC</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VancouverIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VancouverIsland</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/YYJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>YYJ</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ProtectTrees" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProtectTrees</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SaveForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SaveForests</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StopDeforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StopDeforestation</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StopEcocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StopEcocide</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCForestryReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BCForestryReform</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Degrowth</span></a></p>