The Picture Thread Mark III

That's me, and it does look like I'm rather amorously attached to the trunk of that magnolia.
Heh.
I'm about 12 feet up, having shimmied up the bole. The bark was very rough and so kept me from sliding down. The photo was taken, I think, while I was moving, as it doesn't really look so much like I'm clinging to the tree as resting on it. I may be on the way down, or grabbing for a branch on the far side of the picture. There's an odd stiffness to it, no?
 
Avatar said:
I bet that tree fell to the ground a few moments later! :D
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Ah. He does look almost like a widdoe bear cub.

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Very green. That looks like a fairly young forest; all the trees are of uniform size. Some disturbance (logging?) there in the recent past?
 
Don't think so, most of the forests here look like that, i.e., pine (all pines grow into pretty much the same size), and the photo was taken inside a national reserve park, no logging is allowed there.
Btw, that's not Latvia, but one country down south - Lithuania.
 
avatar, but is it a natural forest or has it been replanted
 
Frankly - I don't know, but I seriously doubt a national reserve park would get its' status if it were replanted. Besides there were some thousand year old oak trees around.
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And because most forests in both countries (Latvia and Lithuania) look like that I doubt they're all replanted, we don't have any huge forest fires or other catastrophes here.
 
It looks to be replanted. Real old growth has trees of all differing sizes. One way to tell if a forest has been disturbed in the time it takes for that particular forest-type to climax is the uniformity of height and width of the trees.

Do any big animals live in those forests anymore? I know eastern europe has considerably more wildlife than the west. Poland's got a really great reserve, I know. Can't remember what it's called. Biovesha? I know I'm spelling that wrong.
 
Beautiful oak.
I noticed a uniformity in tree height when I was in Germany, too.
we don't have any huge forest fires or other catastrophes here.
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Except the iron age and industrial revolution ;)
Europe wiped out its forests several times, which is really unfortunate. I'm afraid Americans may make the same mistake and ruin all the wilderness we have left :(
 
groovy, there is something special about being out in the middle of a forest with nothing but trees all around.
 
Yea, it might be that that portion is replanted. As I said , I don't know, but you are right to say that those pines look quite small. There were places that looked more wild a few km down the path. The pines there were considerably larger in diameter.
So it might be that it's a replanted portion after some fire.
I'll ask around when I'm there next year (this year) for a festival.

There are lots of animals, particulary beavers, wild boars, deer and wolves.
 
Uniformity can also be because the trees only grow to a certian high.
The easyies way of see if it's a replanted forest here in Denmark is when you see tree from a certian angle, they all aline in to "endless" rows of tree, kinda funny actually.
 
Kunax said:
The easyies way of see if it's a replanted forest here in Denmark is when you see tree from a certian angle, they a all allined in the "endless" rows of tree, kind funny actually.
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You know, that's something that's always bothered me. In a lot of pre-naturalism landscapes, the trees are aligned in rows and plots. I find something very offputting about that; but perhaps it's just cultural indoctrination on how I feel the spacial alignment of natural objects should be.
 
We still have a few patches of ancient forest in Slovenia:

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I've been there, and it looks a bit spooky.
 
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My back yard.

Technically not my backyard, but those mountains are close enough (and oft climbed enough) to qualify.
 
Roman said:
My back yard.

Technically not my backyard, but those mountains are close enough (and oft climbed enough) to qualify.
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Wow. Beautiful! I'd love to live there.


(Not sure about the bears, but alright anyway.)
 
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