Consider the dead tree. To the living things of the forest, and to the environmentalists who love them, a dead tree is critical infrastructure. A standing one — a snag — may house beetle larvae, which are eaten by woodpeckers, who excavate the softening wood for nests, which are then abandoned and taken up by
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