Truly amazing!!!
I mean, it’s over 28 years, and dispersed much more than this, but it still gives you a sense of scale. Good luck to them!
Now we just need tree houses to solve the housing crisis 👍🏻
I’d like to re-align our objectives for forestry. In the past forestry was a huge rural employer and that was necessary at the time. Things have changed though and so our objectives must realign to doing more to develop the environmental and social sides of forestry while maintain a healthy economic side as support.
I hike a lot in west cork. The amount of barren hillsides could be planted with oak and other broadleaves, if only there was a will. This island could be a wooded little paradise
Was out around the Forrest in Virginia today as I am everyday and the variety of trees there is something else. Turns out one of the Marquis of Headfort was mad into his ecology. There’s a collection of trees from around the world. The redwoods are something else, not to many if them left though. Would love to see more like this.
Although a few woodpeckers seem to have found a home there, the noise of them is incredible.
It makes me very fucking sad all our forests are gone, all we’ve left is boring wildlife. No bears, giant elk or wolves anymore, just a fuck ton of foxes.
Natural woodland or just a crop of pine trees?
As much as I dislike some Green Party proposals, in their 2020 GE Manifesto they wanted the plantation of 20,000ha(~50,000acres) of forestry per year between 2020 & 2030. [Manifesto](https://i.imgur.com/S2znPJI.png)
Obviously an ambitious target, maybe some would even say naive, but 250,000acres over the course of the next 28 years isn’t great.
Obviously I do welcome any extra forestry and even better again if the majority of this planned forestry contains native trees, but when ~10 million acres of the nations land is purely for the growing of grass for farm animals.
Combined forestry including this announcement owned by Coillte ~1.3m acres.
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that’s about 1.12% of the island
Good news once it’s indigenous broadleaf and mixed woodland, and not just rows upon rows of spruce creating an ecological deadzone
Natural trees or just those bloody conifers
Sounds like a good plan.
Nice, here’s hoping it’s indigenous
Have your say on Irelands new forests https://foreststrategy.consultation.ie/en/surveys
Odds on it being all sitka spruce.
I measured out an example size of this to help visualise it:
https://imgur.com/a/RiWxdLM
Truly amazing!!!
I mean, it’s over 28 years, and dispersed much more than this, but it still gives you a sense of scale. Good luck to them!
Now we just need tree houses to solve the housing crisis 👍🏻
I’d like to re-align our objectives for forestry. In the past forestry was a huge rural employer and that was necessary at the time. Things have changed though and so our objectives must realign to doing more to develop the environmental and social sides of forestry while maintain a healthy economic side as support.
I hike a lot in west cork. The amount of barren hillsides could be planted with oak and other broadleaves, if only there was a will. This island could be a wooded little paradise
Was out around the Forrest in Virginia today as I am everyday and the variety of trees there is something else. Turns out one of the Marquis of Headfort was mad into his ecology. There’s a collection of trees from around the world. The redwoods are something else, not to many if them left though. Would love to see more like this.
Although a few woodpeckers seem to have found a home there, the noise of them is incredible.
It makes me very fucking sad all our forests are gone, all we’ve left is boring wildlife. No bears, giant elk or wolves anymore, just a fuck ton of foxes.
Natural woodland or just a crop of pine trees?
As much as I dislike some Green Party proposals, in their 2020 GE Manifesto they wanted the plantation of 20,000ha(~50,000acres) of forestry per year between 2020 & 2030. [Manifesto](https://i.imgur.com/S2znPJI.png)
Obviously an ambitious target, maybe some would even say naive, but 250,000acres over the course of the next 28 years isn’t great.
Obviously I do welcome any extra forestry and even better again if the majority of this planned forestry contains native trees, but when ~10 million acres of the nations land is purely for the growing of grass for farm animals.
Combined forestry including this announcement owned by Coillte ~1.3m acres.
To give an idea of what ~10 million acres looks [Jesus Christ](https://i.imgur.com/0OANx7n.png)
We have to be careful about this. Some grasslands types sequester (eg. callows) more carbon than deciduous woodland [https://www.rte.ie/radio/podcasts/22087149-grasslands-under-threat/](https://www.rte.ie/radio/podcasts/22087149-grasslands-under-threat/)
Actual forest, or spruce plantations?
Hope they’re native instead of an empty dead Sitka spruce forest
Another nail in the farming industry in Ireland.
Coillte already blowing farmers out of the water in bidding for land. Akin to councils outbidding first time buyers.
Then stop cutting down existing ones