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The problem with that increase since the fifties is that it's mostly not 'real' forest but plantations, which are their own kind of desert. I don't know if you'
by detritus 4y ago
The problem with that increase since the fifties is that it's mostly not 'real' forest but plantations, which are their own kind of desert. I don't know if you've ever tried to venture into one but.. it's not fun. Very dense. Very little of nature about them.
- CalRobert 4y agoTo be fair they're not native forest but I quite like a dense, dark forest. It reminds me of forests from home (which is fitting since it's a North American species).
- detritus 4y agoOh, no - I mean the monoculture is so densely planted together that it's a literal struggle to even make your way through. These are not the deep dark forests of yore that threaten Hobbits...!
- CalRobert 4y agoHah, maybe that's why my 4 year old likes it (harder to chase her!) Random example would be Lough Boora which has a sitka spruce plantation and they're somewhere around 2 meter spacing I think, though they're mature so at ground level you don't have too many branches in your face.
- smcl 4y agoI haven't been back for a while, but I remember seeing a few little geometrically simple islands of thick woodland in a sea of farmland. So it's mostly that? Shame