Dark against the autumn sky, its branches broken and twisted, with mysterious black holes and cracks in its bark, a dead tree might seem spooky. But to many animals, it’s home. Bats, screech owls, ...

Surrounded by overgrowth, the fallen trunk of an over 300-year-old tree can be found in a secluded field at the corner of West River Parkway and Franklin Terrace in Minneapolis’ Seward neighborhood.

A broken steel grate may remove one of the city’s most iconic landmarks— the ‘chicken bone’ outside Trenton Transit Center. The three-foot high trunk of a dead tree has for years guarded the station’s ...