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Subject: Trees
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nomnom 14.11.17 - 08:32pm
I used to feel sad whenever I was in the woods and saw trees either as stumps or marked to be cut down. I thought trees were good for the environment. Then today I spent the morning/afternoon cutting them down and burning them. This is what they call conservation, what? I'm fu*king confused.

Last week I was doing shrub bushes, didn't feel as weird though. Today was another day where I learned that everything I thought I knew was wrong, ha, wtf

Anyone here done conservation work before? Or know about forestry management? I asked the guy I was working for but he threw so much info at me, and words I'd never heard of it was really overwhelming * +

crabit.1 14.11.17 - 08:40pm
We have a place called the ecology centre,it's super eco friendly and conservation is the main objection,a guy I support goes once a week and we go with him,cold as fk in the winter though. * +

wolf.1 14.11.17 - 08:54pm
trees are wood... we need wood... * +

nomnom 14.11.17 - 08:59pm
crabit is that in Fife? We don't have anything like that here.

I'm in a team with a bunch of different people from different organisations and different reasons for being there. The guy I chat to most is a fungi expert haha not a professional just really loves them. He showed me a fly agaric today I never even seen one before I blurted out something about it being phallic and laughed and some other guy showed me a picture of a stinkhorn he had on his phone. Weirdos! It's cool though I'm having a good time learning so much.

I'm there for the butterflies, seen evidence of frittillary caterpillars today but no sign of them. Maybe I'm a weird for finding that exciting.

I asked why they're cutting down the trees especially the ones I was shown to use brash? (new word to me) to help them grow. Got a big speech about industry before the war

Aye wolf I get that but... we just burnt most of it * +

crabit.1 14.11.17 - 09:38pm
Yes Kinghorn Fife it sits on the bank of Kinghorn loch it is beautiful any time of the year. * +

mikeymk 14.11.17 - 10:19pm
Trees would do just fine without people meddling. * +

nomnom 14.11.17 - 10:24pm

It's bad for biodiversity to let one tree take over, same for letting them all die at the same time. A woodland is not a tree museum, it's an ecosystem. They need trees of different speices, different ages, they need open grass, they need wildflowers, they need shrubbery.

Last week I was told that there's a belief that we need more trees and if we just plant loads then nature will be ok, and actually we have less wildlife because there's less wild grass growing so our furry critters haven't got many homes, or the space there is, is too spread out and they can't cross from one area to the other safely.

Some of it I just don't get though. On a different site each time I go * +

sisfreak2017 14.11.17 - 10:32pm
wish they'd come cut down that horse chestnut in my garden at autumn if it its not conkers bonking down it's loadsa.leaves like after yesterday's frost.

The forest management occasionally appear busy round here a whole forest of mature pine maybe 50 years old just suddenly disappear for make fence posts n telegraph poles etc , then couple years later it's replanted again

all the ancient native forest trees dont really get touched unless one blows down or damaged in bad storms * +

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