Keith B

By keibr

Misty Forest

Temperature +2C, the ground is frozen, no wind, mist drifting through the trees, a fine drizzle drifting with it. It doesn't sound promising but we need some fresh air after a weekend of partying and baking. We take off into the forest behind our house, and up towards the top of the hill I take this picture.
Very little of the Swedish forest is 100% natural and untouched, mostly it's been chopped down and left to regenerate, the last few decades with help from replanting to make sure it DOES regenerate.
However, if it was last chopped down a century ago and has been pretty much left alone since then it looks fairly natural, and in many ways is so. If you add an owner who doesn't "look after" their forest, who leaves fallen trees to lie where they fell, and then an unfavourable location where it's not really economic to harvest the trees, THEN you get a really natural looking forest!

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