Each autumn, Brandt and Benscoter spend many hours searching for old — and often dying — apple trees across the Pacific Northwest.

每年秋天，布兰特和本斯科特都要花很多时间寻找横跨太平洋西北部的老苹果树，这些老苹果树常常濒临死亡。

So, it's alarming that all across the country numbers of eucalyptus are falling because the trees are dying off prematurely.

因此，由于当前桉树提早地相继死亡，全国范围内的桉树数量下降这件事是令人恐慌的。

But fewer fires led to denser, more flammable forests, packed with the combustible needles of young conifers and the tinder-dry branches of dead or dying trees.

然而火灾变少，森林却变得更加密集且易燃，因为那里长满了叶子，可燃的新生针叶林和枯萎腐朽的干燥易燃树枝。

Typically, this type of bird would peck away and drop thousands of acorns through a hole and store them inside dying tree stumps but not these woodpeckers.

通常，这种鸟会啄掉几千只橡树果，它们会在枯树干上啄洞，然后把这些橡果子放进洞里，但是这些啄木鸟不会。