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Hello Robert.There really is no need to be bothered to speak "only" English. Personally, I speak only French and a little Dutch. I understand a little English reading.This is the magic of this forum. One writes thanks to an automatic translator in English.on copy-paste the message on the forum for those who do not speak English. We choose the language in which we want to read. Everything is translated into the desired language.As for our woods ... As said Hannelore, these are a lot of mono cultures. This causes many problems for biodiversity. In fact, the plants are placed in rows of onions in order to allow better management of maintenance, cutting, etc. This also makes it possible to have trunks of trees which grow homogeneously and are therefore calibrated for The wood industry.We return a little, however, because we have found that these forests are poor and poorly resistant to disease and bad weather. During big storms, it is not uncommon to see the trees fall like dominoes.Now, they have a tendency, in our country, to cut wood by plots leaving some standing specimens to reseed. This allows for a dominance of the desired species. This also makes it possible, thanks to the birds in particular, to have other species that add up and produce more beautiful forests.
......Is my understand correct that there is little or no public forest land in Europe? I just do not know! The U.S.A. has large national parks, a relatively recent development in the history of humans on this planet. Many other countries around the world have created, or at least have attempted to create, national parks. There are also organizations such as the Nature Conservancy. What is it like in Europe?
I have heard very good reports about plants sent by the Japanese nursery, Yuzawa Engei which is one of the nurseries in the SRGC List of suggested specialist nurseries which you can find here http://files.srgc.net/journals/NurseryListSRGC.pdf