The British stole our native trees and then used the land for mass production of timber.
The bit were he says about the trees being his friends I kinda get that , if you walk in a commercial forest they let them grow just long enough you’ve got used to them and big trees have kinda a permanent feel, then one day you go up and it’s stripped bare.
I didn’t really want to engage with this video but seeing it posted for the seventh time, I gave in and decided to give it a skim. Anyway, I know it might seem like a difference without a distinction but it’s a problem with monoculture commercial forests generally that isn’t unique to Ireland (although what is unique to Ireland is the ratio of commercial to native).
And it’s not like people haven’t been ringing alarms bells about the myriad of environmental problems associated with commercial forests, nor was Éowyn the first storm to bring them down. We’ve had multiple winter storms every year for the last ten years that have brought down trees.
Éowyn also brought down thousands of native trees and even in small, sheltered deciduous forests it caused havoc bringing down trees and tearing tops off and big limbs.
Bad as this is, the sun can now get in to parts of forests and create a wild flower blooms. Which helps tackle carbon.
These fake commercial forests need chopped down and replaced with native species
There are groups like Foraois and Hometree, and others, who are trying to reforest small areas in Ireland with native trees. I would love to see them expand their work, ideally with EU support, though I understand the farmers’ lobby are not at all happy about it.
Before the storm DFI have been chopping trees left right and centre. I, and my local environmental, have records of when and where it’s happened. Plenty of photos too. What’s going on? I sent an email to John O’Dowd, no response. I phoned his office and he was never in. Left my number, no response.
Is there any possibility of having some agri-forestry alongside native woodland?
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The British stole our native trees and then used the land for mass production of timber.
The bit were he says about the trees being his friends I kinda get that , if you walk in a commercial forest they let them grow just long enough you’ve got used to them and big trees have kinda a permanent feel, then one day you go up and it’s stripped bare.
I didn’t really want to engage with this video but seeing it posted for the seventh time, I gave in and decided to give it a skim. Anyway, I know it might seem like a difference without a distinction but it’s a problem with monoculture commercial forests generally that isn’t unique to Ireland (although what is unique to Ireland is the ratio of commercial to native).
And it’s not like people haven’t been ringing alarms bells about the myriad of environmental problems associated with commercial forests, nor was Éowyn the first storm to bring them down. We’ve had multiple winter storms every year for the last ten years that have brought down trees.
Éowyn also brought down thousands of native trees and even in small, sheltered deciduous forests it caused havoc bringing down trees and tearing tops off and big limbs.
Bad as this is, the sun can now get in to parts of forests and create a wild flower blooms. Which helps tackle carbon.
These fake commercial forests need chopped down and replaced with native species
There are groups like Foraois and Hometree, and others, who are trying to reforest small areas in Ireland with native trees. I would love to see them expand their work, ideally with EU support, though I understand the farmers’ lobby are not at all happy about it.
Before the storm DFI have been chopping trees left right and centre. I, and my local environmental, have records of when and where it’s happened. Plenty of photos too. What’s going on? I sent an email to John O’Dowd, no response. I phoned his office and he was never in. Left my number, no response.
Is there any possibility of having some agri-forestry alongside native woodland?
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