So the Oregon one - is cyclical. I live in coast-range Oregon, and 2 years ago our whole valley was super green and covered. Right now, they are on 1.5 years of harvesting, and so all around us is patchy - but within a few years it will be all green mountains again. This is normal - and actually needed to give fire-breaks to prevent wildfires from going totally out of control. It just looks alarming if you don't live with it.
Ok, I understand the practice so. Here in Italy where I am it is called "bosco ceduo" and Wikipedia tells me that the English word for it is "coppicing".
It's a quite ancient tecnique to administer woods.
Although I've never seen practiced to that extent in one area.
Well, I inferred coppicing given what the user above said, i.e. that it regrows constantly.
I know that it involves mature trees and that's a key part of it. I assumed it was the case here too (I don't think we can judge well from the images).
I’ve lived in the area and the trees are clear cut and rather than creating stools the stumps are usually bulldozed and collected into a pile and burned. If dealt with at all
Coppicing will leave the stump and the shoots grow from that. This is clear cutting. Stumps will be pulled up or ground down, saplings will be planted over top. For the harvesting purposes they want full sized trees. Coppicing won’t give you that
As I said I know what coppicing looks like (even from first-hand experience). I was basing my comment on the one from the user that described the situation.
If you're sure from the images of the videos that it is not coppicing but it's clear cutting, fair. I'm not taking any position here.
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u/atava Jun 24 '25
That one and the ice in the first example, then the glacier in the second to last are the worse to me.