Willem van Leuveren Fotografie
Forest
Forest is a vegetation that consists mainly of trees in a dominant tree layer, with the undergrowth of herbs and bushes. The herb layer is the layer of plants up to 135 cm high and the bush layer is that of 135 to 800 cm high. Above the tree layer we speak. In the woods, there were originally large grazers (wisent, oeros, tarp, golden herring, moose), which opened open terrain until spiny vegetation emerged like bramble and hawthorn. Eikels were hidden at the edge by Flemish gaits or squirrels as winter food. Some acorns were not recovered and became the beginning of a new forest. Modern forest management often means the transformation of production forest into more naturally mixed forests with native deciduous trees. In the Netherlands, theories about the emergence of forests in the low countries are tested in practice in projects such as the Gelderse Poort and the Oostvaardersplassen, where there is hardly forest management and no planting of trees. There are also sixty-six forest reserves, large and small areas with different types of forest, which are no longer involved in forest development. Source: Wikipedia
