Personal observation i was born and raised in. Upper Michigan, that area was clear cut. completely a hundred years ago,and now you can't tell.
I remember my dads land and a lot of of land being clear cut 40 years ago,and now it's thick forest. I actually preferred hunting grouse as a kid in areas that were recently logged as their was much more game.
From personal experience, there's not much game in an overgrown forest. A mile away in a clear cut area there's birds, rabbits, squirrels, deer, and even the occasional lynx or fox.
I second Pbman2. I was born, raised, and live in the Puget Sound area of Washington. Timber harvesting is a MAJOR industry (the Boeing family started out in timber harvesting). There is a mountainous hillside south of Bellingham (my home town) on Interstate 5, on which I have seen the hillside clear-cut and completely regrown over about 4 cycles in about 20-30 years. I haven't been back enough to continue counting. Here, in my own suburban neighborhood, a tract of several acres of standing Douglas Fir was cleared for development. What emerged from the clearing operation were two abandoned houses, dating from the 1950s, judging from the style and fixtures. Completely invisible. My own house is surrounded by 100-foot tall Douglas Firs from pre-existing forest. Some that had been cut down for various reasons had stumps with rings indicating ages of some 70 years. Settlement and farming in Whatcom County was impossible without first cutting down forest, in order to have open land. Where trees grow and rainfall is copious (e.g., 50 inches/year), it is impossible for them not to grow. They are like weeds.
I think forests have more of a chance in the East than in the West where it's mostly drier, but I've seen places in Southern California that burned and the forest didn't come back.
Most places,you can clear cut and they grow back with no problem. It's actually pretty hard to stop them.
got any sources to read, im genuinly curious on how what your describing works fren. like this is the 1st im hearing aboutsuch a thing
Personal observation i was born and raised in. Upper Michigan, that area was clear cut. completely a hundred years ago,and now you can't tell.
I remember my dads land and a lot of of land being clear cut 40 years ago,and now it's thick forest. I actually preferred hunting grouse as a kid in areas that were recently logged as their was much more game.
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From personal experience, there's not much game in an overgrown forest. A mile away in a clear cut area there's birds, rabbits, squirrels, deer, and even the occasional lynx or fox.
They say the local Indians would burn the forest so their would be more game.....
I second Pbman2. I was born, raised, and live in the Puget Sound area of Washington. Timber harvesting is a MAJOR industry (the Boeing family started out in timber harvesting). There is a mountainous hillside south of Bellingham (my home town) on Interstate 5, on which I have seen the hillside clear-cut and completely regrown over about 4 cycles in about 20-30 years. I haven't been back enough to continue counting. Here, in my own suburban neighborhood, a tract of several acres of standing Douglas Fir was cleared for development. What emerged from the clearing operation were two abandoned houses, dating from the 1950s, judging from the style and fixtures. Completely invisible. My own house is surrounded by 100-foot tall Douglas Firs from pre-existing forest. Some that had been cut down for various reasons had stumps with rings indicating ages of some 70 years. Settlement and farming in Whatcom County was impossible without first cutting down forest, in order to have open land. Where trees grow and rainfall is copious (e.g., 50 inches/year), it is impossible for them not to grow. They are like weeds.
If you cut them down twice, you've taken all the nutrients and chances are they won't grow back. It also depends on the climate.
Our soil is really thick in most places,so I've never seen that.
I have seen trees grow in depleted soil that the hay has been cut on for many years,the grass gets thin and then the trees have a chance to start.
I think forests have more of a chance in the East than in the West where it's mostly drier, but I've seen places in Southern California that burned and the forest didn't come back.
If they bun in michigan,they come back better.