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The Art of Natural Forest Practice |
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Left - The tree surgeon climbing in the process of removing the top. |
Why cut the top off a large tree to make a glade? I think of the woodland as a whole community, trees are one part of this. When the woodland canopy closes over it’s dark and open underneath, the ground-cover plants are sparse, there are few shrubs, not many seedling trees and an absence of decaying wood. The fungi are not fruiting, it’s quiet, the birds are not singing and the insects are not flying. There is need for a helping-hand by letting in some light, not too much, just enough for a shaft of sunlight to reach the forest floor.
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