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Even dead, the tree keeps working — landlord, pantry, and nursery to the forest.
means Dead branches or trees still standing or fallen in a forest — or, figuratively, useless people or things that contribute nothing and weigh the rest down.
from A plain English compound of "dead" and "wood," old as both words themselves — "dead" from Old English dēad and "wood" from Old English wudu. It began as the literal forester's term for lifeless timber, then branched into the figurative sense of useless burdens by the 19th century, when people started clearing the "deadwood" from organizations the way one clears it from a thicket.
- life after death
- Houses more species than living trees
- slow burn
- Can take centuries to fully rot away
- forest builder
- Decaying logs nurse the seedlings that replace them
- carbon vault
- Stores tons of carbon as it decomposes
- gold rush town
- Wild Bill Hickok was shot dead there
deadwood south dakota — historic gold rush town in the black hills, founded 1876, where wild bill hickok was shot
deadwood hbo series — premium cable drama that ran 2004-2006 set in the titular town, created by david milch