Firewood and Cleanup: Standing trees, dead or alive, are home to birds and insects, so leave them intact.

生火取材和过后清理：直立的树木，不论生还是死，都是鸟类和昆虫的家，所以不要去损害它。

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Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown-down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads.

未被飓风刮倒的树上像结彩似的挂满被风撕成布条的衣服，吹断的的电线像黑色的意大利面条一样一圈一圈地散落在路面上。

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For the first thirty miles the red earth road wound its way through the lowland forest, the giant trees standing in solid ranks alongside and their branches entwined in an archway of leaves above us.

在最初的三十英里里，红土路蜿蜒穿过低地森林，高大的树木整齐地排列在我们的两旁，它们的枝桠在我们头顶上交错成一个树叶拱门。

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There are not many standing trees left in the tornado path and that will take some years to get replanted and regrow.

NPR: Two Years Later, Joplin Mayor Reflects On Impact Of Tornado

The main international effort to speed it up is an idea known as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), which pays people in developing countries to leave trees standing.

ECONOMIST: Forests and how to save them

Many of the dead trees are still standing, and can serve as ladder fuels that transform relatively cool surface fires into hot, fast-moving crown fires that leap from treetop to treetop.

FORBES: Forests and Climate Change: a Combustible Combination