I also would like to report the demise of a snag. Along the Green River
Trail adjacent to the Riverwood and Signature Point apartment complexes
stood a magnificent old snag with some few brave surviving branches still
growing leaves every year. Ivy tangled its way up one side, and graffiti
carvings graced its lower sides. I don't know what kind of tree it was. It
must have been a spectacular tree in its heyday, perhaps standing
majestically years before Anglo settlers came to the White River Valley
(before people changed the courses of the White River).

In that old snag I spied BROWN CREEPERS, crows, towhees, sparrows, a hawk or
two standing sentry at its top, and even a hummingbird (!) taking cover
under its loose bark.

The demise of this old snag was not natural like the others. This old snag,
wonderful habitat and cover for all sorts of wildlife was CUT down.

Lydia Gaebe In Kent, WA USA
lgaebe at msn.com
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