deadwood

Their grazing also reduced fire hazards, as did local families collecting deadwood to burn in the winter.

West: A century of firefighting, elimination of Indigenous burning, logging of large fire-resistant trees, and other management practices that allowed small trees, undergrowth and deadwood to choke forests.

Through photosynthesis, carbon transforms into biomass, which eventually dies and becomes leaf litter or deadwood.

He said it was part of an exercise to "cut the deadwood out of the police force".

Mr Sarma had earlier vowed to "cut the deadwood out of the police force".