Using dead trees in forest

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Your cruisin' for an ass kicking? Cuz that's how you cruise for an ass kicking....
 

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I have seen it done well, and also poorly. I suppose it depends on how it is done.
 

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I've seen some very very good examples of this done with spruce forests by some Japanese masters. Although never with a fallen tree. That would seem difficult.
 

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Goshin has a dead trunk or two doesn't it? Can't tell in the pics of those long dead trunks have any live veins or not... none are fallen obviously, just saying that is a rather famous example..
 

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Fallen is difficult because of the line it creates.

Makes perfect sense but kills flow...

I wonder if rotten and opened up to break up that line would work....
Though hard to maintain.

Do it!

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American Larch Group Setting, 3 yrs old and a WIP, will be adding 6 new Larch this Spring, Foliage just starting presently, one downed tree trunk shown & I may add another...
 
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