The tree was completely dead. Chicago’s parks (though this one was not in a park setting) is to not remove them but often to allow artists to create statues out of them. Here, life of other forms thrive using nutrients it can garner from the tree’s remains. Copyright 2023 Pamela BreitbergOld, dead trees, like many other “dead’ things in nature still have value. They help sustain other life. Here it’s a large mushroom.
