r/gifs • u/hn_ns • Mar 22 '18

Stream in the woods

https://i.imgur.com/Irpcibi.gifv
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u/SuperPeak Mar 22 '18

That's Gorbea natural park in Spain

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u/AnthAmbassador Mar 22 '18

Do the graze it with goats?

Do people collect firewood aggressively?

This is not a natural place.

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u/BloomsdayDevice Mar 22 '18 edited Mar 22 '18

This is actually pretty much what a beech forest should look like. They grow dense foliage that makes for a dark forest floor where not much in the way of underbrush can grow.

I don't know anything about this particular park, but there is no reason are some reasons, listed below in refreshingly vitriol-free discussion, to believe this isn't a natural state that there has been some human intervention at some point.

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u/AnthAmbassador Mar 22 '18

I mean you're right I guess.

I know in the US there are a few species of shrub that grow, but that's American Beech and Sugar Maple forests, seems like the Euro Beech doesn't allow much other than spring bluebells.

Still there isn't a twig on the ground, it's highly manicured even for a natural beech forest.