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Would be great if people can sign this http://chng.it/cdcfYpHn It’s an amazing place to ride and now NRW have increased the rate of tree felling from 5% of their estate per year to 15% along side seeing “natural regrowth” as a strategy to replace felled trees (potentially taking circa 30 years to come back) Forrests in Wales are a dying feature
WEerrmmm - this is a commercial tree farm. the approach will allow some biodiversity back. Are they native trees? Most tree farms are not.
It's a commercial forest, they'll sort the trail out I'm sure. And some native trees for the next generation is a great thing.
Using trees for biomass I'm not so sure about but you can't win them all.
monrobiker - I don't know for sure about these trees but much of the commercial forestry in scotland is IIRC of such poor quality wood that its only uses are pulp for paper or biomass. Its no good for construction.
Duplicate thread.
I’ve ridden Afan in the past, and just like large swathes of the FoD there’s lots of commercial forestry there, it’s a crop like any other, only slower growing than many.
Diversification into native hardwoods is an ongoing process, encouraged by the threat to Larch plantations by a fungal infection, and it’s can only be a very good thing.
Most of the British landscape is manmade, it changes all the time.