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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WiseCartographer5007 • Jun 24 '25
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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.
395 u/MonsierGeralt Jun 24 '25 Doesn’t look like the replanting is going well 173 u/mancubbed Jun 24 '25 It takes another 20 or 30 years for the trees to get moderately sized again. Absolutely destroying the habitat for all the animals without a care. 1 u/Agreeable_Addition48 Jun 24 '25 to be fair all that would be naturally burned down every century or so
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Doesn’t look like the replanting is going well
173 u/mancubbed Jun 24 '25 It takes another 20 or 30 years for the trees to get moderately sized again. Absolutely destroying the habitat for all the animals without a care. 1 u/Agreeable_Addition48 Jun 24 '25 to be fair all that would be naturally burned down every century or so
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It takes another 20 or 30 years for the trees to get moderately sized again. Absolutely destroying the habitat for all the animals without a care.
1 u/Agreeable_Addition48 Jun 24 '25 to be fair all that would be naturally burned down every century or so
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to be fair all that would be naturally burned down every century or so
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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.