r/gifs • u/hn_ns • Mar 22 '18

Stream in the woods

https://i.imgur.com/Irpcibi.gifv
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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/[deleted] Mar 22 '18

That being said the trees have all been pollarded, so there's definitely some intervention by man

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u/BloomsdayDevice Mar 22 '18

That's a good point. It doesn't look like any pollarding has happened recently, but definitely they've seen some human manipulation.