If a tree falls in the forest...

... and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Last week we lost a grand old cottonwood in the Botanic Garden.  It was a victim of a day of strong, gusty winds the weekend before.

It fell across the west loop of the trail in the Cottonwood Gallery.  It nearly crushed the four-wing saltbush that our Nature's Notebook group monitors.  

You can barely see the saltbush under the fallen canopy.