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Dovahkiinthesardine t1_jc6njfs wrote

Reply to comment by Kended in A thousand eyes staring at you in a forest in southern Germany [OC] [3888x5184] by tegucigalpa1337

most of Germany's forests nowadays were artificially planted. From the middle ages onwards and especially during the industrial revolution a lot was chopped down, then also again during both world wars, basically most forest were used industrially. After WW2 there was a lot of reforesting done

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rapaxus t1_jc6rfxy wrote

And this true for basically all of Europe, with the exception of parts of Scandinavia and Russia. Nearly every forest here was planted by hand and is maintained.

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