The OfficiaL GUMMINT  line: yadda yadda yadda.....but we can't log those now dead trees,  nor ever will.  They are now legacy snags.   Sort of like abortion:  there wasn't any life there,  there,  so nothing died,  there.  

Burn the whole sum beech.  All of it.  Smoke it.  Scorch it.  Anything but cut a log to make materials to build a home for the homeless.  So save your cardboard boxes for winter giving to the homeless.  And let the trees rot.   

Legacy Trees.   They can die.  Legacy hires in government never die.  They just keep on earning pensions,  free medical care,  cushy jobs,  and zero responsibility for screw ups,  failures,  psychopathic behaviors.  Dead Legacy Trees,  and nothing but positive spin and outcomes for the perpetrators of the Legacy tree deaths.