re forestation. do you think its good that when a forest is cut down?

Question

regardless of what kind of trees were in the forest the company will just plant some kind of pine tree.
i think this must be damaging and dangerous to the enviorment so i think a check of the kind of trees there first should take place and then the same kind and % of each type of tree would be replanted . what do you think of all of this.

Answer 1

often to appear good in public people reforrest with mono culture tree farming ,which are trees of the same kind planted for timber and for the chain saw

this kind of farming is just as harmfull as mono culture corn or anything else

,they have been called standing desserts and are very vulnerable for diseases

and are the most depressing and horrific places to walk about in .or get lost in

there are no animals because all is the same and the soils suffers

for animals there has to be diversity so that insect life and following componants in the food chain are also diverse

the motives are greed not Environmental and this practise is condemned all over the world

this was my answer on deforestation
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Answer 2

The reason pine, fir, and spruce trees are planted by the forest companies is these trees need fire to release their seeds. Decidous trees such as the trembling aspen do not as they run on a network of runners under ground (like strawberries).

Saskatchewan where I live, there is a large forestry industry. Not as large as BC's but still its a good industry. In central Saskatchewan around Hudson Bay Saskatchewan where there is a Weyhhouser Mill they plant spruce. In their specified cut blocks is a mixed forest of confierous and decidious trees. They don't plant trembling aspen as it grows and spreads its seeds on its own every year. Coniferious trees as I stated need fire to spread their seeds.

The seeds are encapsulated in the cone and the heat from the fire melts the wax holding them in. Since forestry usually doesn't have fires the conifers can't reproduce on their own.

A point has been made that conifers are planted for profit, which is true to a point but not the only reason as I have explained.

I don't think taking a % of each type of tree and then doing an equation is the way to go as thats not natural it should be spread in a mixture what survives was meant to grow there what doesn't wasn't. A way to maximixe growth is to spread seeds or plant trees that will survive in different geographical locations such as planting black spruce near bogs and they can handle the extra moisture and lower pH un like say trembling aspen.

I hope this helps

Answer 3

No matter what is replanted, it will never be the same as the original forest. However, I think something might be better than nothing so long as it is not going to grow out of control. Afterall, when I was studying in a deforested rainforest in Central America, the howler monkeys would use the pine trees to rest in, so I guess they are good for at least one thing.

Answer 4

I think that companies that reforrest plant trees that will make them the most profit. The don't plant pine, the plant mostly fir.

Most of the re-rorrested land here in the US is working on the 3rd of 4th groth.

Whatever you think, this method is much better than the old method; cut down the trees and let the erosion begin.

Answer 5

Replanting a monoculture is better than nothing, but whatever they do, they can't replant a forest. A forest is much more complicated than just a bunch of trees.