Dead trees also provide shelter for birds, such as six types of woodpeckers, owls, chickadees, bluebirds, wrens, nuthatches and American kestrels.

A sad fact of life is that sometimes a tree must be cut down. Some trees are beset by invasive insects or disease, others may be mangled by storms and some die from environmental stress or old age.

Severe weather knocked out power and took down tree branches in parts of the Twin Cities on Sunday. More severe weather is possible on Monday evening. If a neighbor’s tree falls in your yard, who is ...