The Healing Power of Chainsaws

The World

In the Pacific Northwest forest ecologists are using chainsaws to create standing dead timber, or “snags,” to provide nesting spots for birds displaced by the chainsaws of lumberjacks. Living On Earth’s Terry FitzPatrick reports.

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