Book Description

Provides a description of the ecological processes that create wildlife trees, snags, & logs. It provides qualitative & quantitative information on five distinct structures: living trees with decay, hollow trees, trees with brooms (misshapen branches), dead trees, & down woody material (logs). The value of these structures to wildlife is described, as well as the decay or infection processes that produce each type of structure, principles to help in selecting the best structures to retain, & management implications. References, photographs, & sample log inventory