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Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: September 14, 2009
Caption: An Ancient Community Marker
Additional Description: Photo Caption:
Old-growth forests also contain snags - standing dead trees - and “nurse” logs that provide shelter for a variety of plant and animal life. Nurse legs provide ideal places for young plants to sprout. Eventually, the snags and nurse logs decompose and become new soil.
Submitted: December 26, 2012, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p229825
File Size: 3.167 Megabytes

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