Thinning out

Happy Monday.

You’d be forgiven for wondering if today’s blog is about some kind of new dietary fad…. Or maybe a homage to my receding hairline…. Yet no, it is about thinning out the Woods in Oslomarka.

I have previously written about the butchering of Nature and deforestation in the woods surrounding Oslo. Yet today is an altogether more positive tone.

You see, I am not against Woodland being managed properly, whilst consulting with the Stakeholders (those who use it and N seeature itself).

Wood has been used both as a building material and as a source of heat and energy for hundreds of thousands of years. And managed properly it will continue to do so for a long time.

I was up near Øyungen on my first Adventure of the week when I saw the usual signs of forestry work…. A yellow sign, belt track marks on the gravel, trees lying stacked up.

But this time it was slightly different. The lumberjacks seemed to have left a good proportion of the trees (much like in the woods near Sandermosen train station).

This allows for wildlife to still use the woods, for shade to help retain the moisture in the soil, and seedlings from the remaining trees and bushes to aid a quicker regeneration.

It is nice to see a more balanced approach to forestry work, Nature and the wildlife, rather than the total decimation of wooded areas like in some of the previous “projects”.