Your Neighbors. Your Arborists.
From Matador Network Site: (https://matadornetwork.com/trips/21-beautiful-trees-forests/)
The white clay pan of Dead Vlei is located in the Namib Desert. It once lay in the floodplain of the Tsauchab River, but when the water vanished as a result of climatic change, so did the trees’ ability to survive. They exist now as skeletons, backdropped by immense orange sand dunes.