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Tree farm is basically a solid brick of brown matter with some bushes on the top. The trees are sick, light starved, growing too closely together, and generally

Tree farm is basically a solid brick of brown matter with some bushes on the top. The trees are sick, light starved, growing too closely together, and generally a mess. The things that live in tree farms are not nice, rats, it's too thick for anything bigger. This type of environment does not support a food chain. Overall, the trees grow like a group of sickly cotton swabs. Now that I recognize tree farms, I no longer feel quite as bad when I see then clear-cut. They were sick trees that were destined to be cut down.

seadan83 3y ago
Found the pictures, compare the tree farm to the red wood forest: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/07/the-wrong-kind-of-trees-irelands-afforestation-meets-resistance https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/07/the-wrong-kind... (all the trees you see in the guardian article are tree-farm trees, not just the ones that are clear-cut) https://www.savetheredwoods.org/wp-content/uploads/cr-understory-7001.jpg https://www.savetheredwoods.org/wp-content/uploads/cr-unders... The clear-cut gives a nice cross view into the trees. It's a mess in there.. not much green. It's pretty clear the total available surface area in a natural forest is larger. The forest/nature/plants all optimize themselves to have as much surface area as possible. Loggers optimize for the greatest number of tree trunks and fewest number branches.