#there’s a subtler and imo worse kind of horror in even-aged second growth stands | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

swallowtailed · 1 year ago

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[id: photo of a plantation of conifers. The trees are planted in long, even rows, receding away from the viewer. The understory is entirely open—there is nothing else besides the identical trees. /end id]

monoculture forests are deeply unsettling in a way that is hard to explain to people who do not spend a lot of time looking at forests

#god. seconded #there’s a subtler and imo worse kind of horror in even-aged second growth stands #even if not a plantation (which is what this is)#drive through connecticut sometime. you’ll see what i mean #the forest seems natural but you start to realize slowly that it’s all the same structure #same height. same understory density #for miles and miles and miles #you can tell the entire forest was just erased up until (in the life of a forest) very recently #anyway. silviculture land management etc etc. i got my degree in why that photo looks like it does #but it’s still unsettling!

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