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Same thing in Germany, after WW2 and the boom and rebuilding thereafter, a lot of forests are pure pine forests since they grow very quickly and provided the wo
by meibo 5y ago
Same thing in Germany, after WW2 and the boom and rebuilding thereafter, a lot of forests are pure pine forests since they grow very quickly and provided the wood for the country.
Sadly, that lead to a lot of forests all over the country losing their beautiful biodiversity that you can e.g. find in the black forest.
Nowadays they're also often diseased, as you said, and you can see whole blocks of forest being torn down to contain the spread.
- flohofwoe 5y agoIn some regions - like Saxony - mono-culture reforesting to spruce forests had already started in the 18th century (after the Ore Mountains had been pretty much deforested by centuries of mining operations). Thankfully the forests are now slowly transitioned away from the mono-cultures. But I guess spruce forests are overall better than no forests at all.