Living next to a managed forest
One of the many advantages of living next to a managed forest is of course having thousands of hectares of pine, oak, silver birch, and acacia woodland to roam. If you’re lucky, you can see deer, wild boar, and innumerable species of bird.
One of the very few disadvantages of living next to a managed forest is when Mr Forest Manager and his trusty band of vandals come along and cut down a part of the forest you really enjoyed. Yes, it is a business. Yes, they have done this before elsewhere and immediately after clearing, they replant saplings. Yes, I have bought some of those logs over the years and they have kept my family warm back when Poland used to have proper winters. And yes, as the saplings grow they become home to the same diverse creatures.
Still, I do sometimes wish they’d take their chainsaws somewhere else.
These photos show the most recent culling of some very old trees, along with an area that was cleared and replanted five years ago, and another that received the same treatment ten years ago.
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