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The following document helps a bit. I could believe that 15% of forests in Germany (regardless of ownership and access) are "very semi-natural". I'm not so con
by piceas 5y ago
The following document helps a bit. I could believe that 15% of forests in Germany (regardless of ownership and access) are "very semi-natural".
I'm not so convinced that the next 21% of "semi-natural" forests just means that they haven't been logged or actively managed for a generation or so.
The document has some stats on ownership.
The Forests in Germany
Selected Results of the Third National Forest Inventory
https://www.bmel.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/Publications/ForestsInGermany-BWI.pdf https://www.bmel.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/Publications/For...
page 22
"By nature, Germany is beech country and if left to nature, today’s forest area would be made up of 75 % beech forests and 17 % oak forests. Where beech forests would naturally grow, today only 21 % beech forests stand;"
"15 % of the forests have a very semi-natural composition and another 21 % a semi-natural composition of tree species"