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Just to be clear to everybody who hasn't walked through one of these "forests": five minutes is enough to know that these are literally dead zones. In addition
by scandox 7y ago
Just to be clear to everybody who hasn't walked through one of these "forests": five minutes is enough to know that these are literally dead zones. In addition the company that manages all this land and all this planting won't release figures on how much Roundup they're putting in the ground...but a reliable source tells me it has to be measured in units of hundreds of truckloads. And anyone who grows up in the Irish countryside knows the preferred method of a pulling a single weed is to pour a gallon of the stuff on it, rather than lift a hand.
So this doesn't have to be about native vs non-native...what's truly important here is that these forests are about as much part of the ecosystem as a lawn that's being sprayed twice a week.
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- rfreytag 7y agoThe article mentions Sweden also cultivates Sitka pines. Having traveled through Sweden I never heard a sound in their forests; no bird song at all.
- adminu 7y agoIs Roundup used for all of the trees' lifetimes or only in the first (maybe second) year in order to prevent it from being overgrown? My father now owns a little bit of forrest and after new trees had been planted the effort for keeping them growing and not dying under tons of weed is non-trivial. As soon as the trees are big enough the issue becomes a non-issue, of course.