Depending on the environment. if the branch has fallen in a dry environment it won't rot, but if the branch has fallen in a wet or damp environment e.g-rain forest the branch will rot.
Chewing the bark from trees whittles them down a bit.
Bark beetles bore through the bark to eat the tasty nutrients in the inner bark known as the phloem and cambium layers. If they eat all the way around the tree, they will girdle the tree and the tree will die. Girdling cuts the trees food tubes and it will be unable to send nutrients up and down the trunk.
The bark beetle (wood boring beetle) can help our forests by thinning out trees in spots that are too thick with trees. If it kills the tree our forest service will cut it down. Therefore thinning the forest.
beavers cut trees to build dams
In the camps where I have camped it has been all right if the limbs of trees were on the ground and fallen branches, but you were not to cut down trees or saplings for wood use.
Lumberjacks are men and women that cut down trees for lumber and paper companies. Arborists are those that have special training in tree biology and advise land owners how to trim trees and cut down diseased trees or those trees that present a safety problem.
You found that he had fallen down, didn't you?
The effects to small towns can be major: broken or fallen buildings, fallen trees, hole in the ground, and over turned cars and even deaths, down power lines, fallen roofs and broken roads and highways and this can happen to big cities too!
It took too long to chop the tree down and cut it up. In order to get crops in quickly, they would kill the trees quickly so that the crop could get enough sun to grow. Then as they had time, they would cut the trees down for firewood and lumber.
Cinnamon is actually the inner bark of several different types of trees (in the genus Cinnamomum). It can be purchased as a cinnamon stick--the actual bark thinly cut, and dried. It can be purchased ground, where they take the stick/bark and process it down to a fine powder. It can also be purchased in an oil form, in which the oil is extracted from the bark and bottled to be sold.
Ashes, Many people dead on the ground, trees fallen down, cars, houses, and buildings all destroyed.
it can damage buildings and pollute rivers which have life in them and kill the living species in the water