Germany has one of the most carefully managed, yet some of the unhealthiest stands of trees in Europe. A forest would imply a habitat suitable for forest- dwelling creatures such as deer, owls and badgers rather than fast-growing monocrops of spruce trees to be harvested every generation prone to blow downs
and disease. (Der Spiegel)
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Monocrop Menace
Category: Environment
Posted on: June 29, 2007 11:52 AM, by EJGili
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Though to be fair to monocrops, increasing blow downs are not only due to selection but to artificial, equi-distant spacing from thinning.
Posted by: Torbjörn Larsson, OM | June 29, 2007 07:20 PM