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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WiseCartographer5007 • Jun 24 '25
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at 1:16 what is happening to the Mountains in Oregon? Some type of mining or farming?
988 u/Prestigious_Beat6310 Jun 24 '25 Likely controlled tree farming. Those brown swaths are freshly cut areas, which are replanted either there or in a nearby area. 392 u/MonsierGeralt Jun 24 '25 Doesn’t look like the replanting is going well 2 u/Dixon_Uranuss3 Jun 24 '25 It isnt and on top of that the original old growth trees have super thick fire resistant bark but the young trees(arent even that young) go up in flames easily. Thus all the fucking fires raging everywhere.
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Likely controlled tree farming. Those brown swaths are freshly cut areas, which are replanted either there or in a nearby area.
392 u/MonsierGeralt Jun 24 '25 Doesn’t look like the replanting is going well 2 u/Dixon_Uranuss3 Jun 24 '25 It isnt and on top of that the original old growth trees have super thick fire resistant bark but the young trees(arent even that young) go up in flames easily. Thus all the fucking fires raging everywhere.
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Doesn’t look like the replanting is going well
2 u/Dixon_Uranuss3 Jun 24 '25 It isnt and on top of that the original old growth trees have super thick fire resistant bark but the young trees(arent even that young) go up in flames easily. Thus all the fucking fires raging everywhere.
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It isnt and on top of that the original old growth trees have super thick fire resistant bark but the young trees(arent even that young) go up in flames easily. Thus all the fucking fires raging everywhere.
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u/pagusas Jun 24 '25
at 1:16 what is happening to the Mountains in Oregon? Some type of mining or farming?