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What happens after 80 years of acidification?

• aksss 7y ago
  I mean, there are old spruce forests you can look at and see. Essentially the Boreal forest but with the benefit of your warmer weather in Ireland. Think Oregon coastal forests. People keep talking about a lack of biodiversity and acidity, but did you expect a fully functional old forest to be delivered out of the box?? For it to happen immediately after planting? Trees are a long, long-term investment. Building an entire functional forest will take more than a human lifetime, really a few. You need to wait for the trees to mature, a few generations of birds, animals to move in. Sooner or later other plants will start popping up, as they do in the wild, so you'll get hemlock in there eventually and depending on what else is spreading seed, other underbrush. https://beautifuloregon.com/sitka-spruce-siuslaw-national-forest-oregon-coast-range-2313-6600/?gallery=oregon-coast-range https://beautifuloregon.com/sitka-spruce-siuslaw-national-fo...
  • slartibardfast0 7y ago
    There are no bad trees, but the context for them just might be! Ireland's semi-state forestry co with just little planning & a healthy minority of native trees, could we have advanced this lovely idea by decades. However, I do wonder if we're running out of climate runway, to ever seen anything as beautiful as Oregon's spruce forests in Ireland. The day after they clear a commercial forest here is not pretty! On a related note (not that anyone reading this today will ever get to see its glory days) private individuals in Ireland have planted, far inland, a Redwood grove as a hedge against environmental disaster: https://www.giantsgrove.ie/giant-redwoods/ https://www.giantsgrove.ie/giant-redwoods/ edit: erroneous apostrophe
• pvaldes 7y ago
  A stunning autumn