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I usually disdain texts beginning with a definition, but Old Snag definitely demands one. Personally, I could imagine a “hey you!” just preceding it — the kind of expression muttered at the edge of a counter, directed toward some drunk man: a body gone crooked, inexplicably still standing. As it turns out, the term is not typically used for human beings. And yet, if it were, my intuition would not feel entirely misapplied. A snag, in forestry, is a standing dead tree: no longer alive in the biological sense but not yet absorbed back into the ground. A walking dead, in other words! No wonder every existing image of a haunted house includes somewhere in the background a lightning-struck trunk, twisted like a witch’s finger. Wait, hear this before you roll your eyes in disapproval of my fixation with the topic. What is important, and increasingly documented in ecological research, is that these dead standing trees are far from inert remnants. They function as active ecosystems, hosting…
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I usually disdain texts beginning with a definition, but Old Snag definitely demands one. Personally, I could imagine a “hey you!” just preceding it — the kind of expression muttered at the edge of a counter, directed toward some drunk man: a body gone crooked, inexplicably still standing. As it turns out, the term is not typically used for human beings. And yet, if it were, my intuition would not feel entirely misapplied. A snag, in forestry, is a standing dead tree: no longer alive in the biological sense but not yet absorbed back into the ground. A walking dead, in other words! No wonder every existing image of a haunted house includes somewhere in the background a lightning-struck trunk, twisted like a witch’s finger. Wait, hear this before you roll your eyes in disapproval of my fixation with the topic. What is important, and increasingly documented in ecological research, is that these dead standing trees are far from inert remnants. They function as active ecosystems, hosting…
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