Benefits of Fallen Trees to a Lake Ecosystem
DNR Document on the Benefit of Fallen Trees
Permits are not always necessarily for a tree drop project – See the Rules

Instead of removing a storm damaged tree on Little Lake Wissota the landowner, Ralph Bellore, chose to add the tree to the lake for fish habitat purposes.

DNR fisheries staff and Dave Halberg, a landowner on Little Lake Wissota, just finished up securing the trunk of the tree to the stump as part of a tree drop project.