IF YOU BUILD IT, they will come–or at least if you don’t knock it down, they will. I promise. That’s the progress report on my wildlife tree, or snag, created at the end of 2014 when a large, multi-trunk old birch was starting to die back and fall apart.
One of my best moves ever was to let nature show me how to manage dying and dead trees in a smarter way than simply by removing them. You may recall that a couple of years ago, when an old birch here was dying, I confused the arborist by asking that he top it but leave most of the trunk standing, creating…
