fungi rot help

We have a tree on our property that has a fungi rot on it. We have started pulling down the limbs with obvious fungi on it. Can this tree be saved? It appears to be on most limbs. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I don't know about the fungi but if you can determine that these are ash trees and have emerald ash borers in your area you may as well take them down and plant something else at this point.

They could be ash…but the buds are alternate? I am tempted to say walnut family but the bark doesn’t look familiar.

Edit: it’s a cottonwood tree! For some reason that did not register until the second examination.

I think that the fungi might be elm oyster which are edible, so maybe you could leave the tree after all. I’m not sure whether they like cottonwoods but I would look at them when they’re fresh and try to identify. A lot of healthy and delicious mushrooms grow on rotting trees.

Old trees can provide lots of habitat for various creatures, especially bluebirds who will nest in cavities in the rotting trunk. There is a falling apart, sprouted all over with mushrooms, resprouting birch tree here. The pieces are all good mulch. One log fell down, I planted comfrey and hostas around it and they took off happily.

The bark is weird. I was thinking maybe one of the hickories. I would not have guessed cottonwood but I'm only seeing one photo. It looks like there are 3 more that don't show up for me. Fungi must be in one of the other photos.

I agree completely with leaving it if you can for a snag and habitat if nothing else.