The body in the woods

A startling discovery by the banks of the Campbell River ...

Body in a tree bark suit, abandoned among the dead leaves of last fall.

Maybe it's an alien from outer space; it has no hands, and there's something growing out of its upper chest area.

Or maybe I should step back and look at the whole complex.

Oh.

The bark on the roots looks like birch bark, but the trunk bark and the growth pattern says "willow".