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TheViking
18-11-2004, 17:42
I couldn't find the woodland chatter forum. :?:
Sorry if this is :repost:
What sort of forest you like best?? Woodland, coniferous, mix or other... :biggthump
Cheers.
does "woodland" mean broad leaf?
ChrisKavanaugh
18-11-2004, 21:05
About This time of year magic forests spring up in tired urban centers. I got utterly lost in one a few years ago. I remembered the basic survival precept of staying put and the children's HUG A TREE program. My G/F at the time finally found me. We went to a restaurant, where, gaunt and tired I drank several cups of coffee and related fending off a charging rat. She suggested we go back in daylight to choose her Christmas tree. :nana:
Nightfall
18-11-2004, 21:07
I voted other, I love both woodlands{broad leaf or deciduous} and conifers.I grew up in Iowa,the Mississippi River was my backyard. I spent alot of time hunting and fishing on the river or in the woods around it. Now living in Californiathe, forests around me are all coniferous. The only broadleaf forests around me now are found in stream areas. To me there will always be something special about being srounded by the green of the forest and coming over a ridge into a stream bed colored in shadesof red, orange, and yellow.
RovingArcher
18-11-2004, 21:32
I went with a mix. I like both woodland and conifer, as well as meadowland and scrub and we got it all right here. :wink:
tenbears10
18-11-2004, 22:10
I think you guys have got forests we can only dream of here in Britain.
But I do like a mix of old woodland and coniferous. I think in the New Forest recently they cleared some undergrowth and found that an Oak tree was hidden behind which is thought to be 500 years old. :shock:
Bill
I most love the individual character of the trees in mixed woodland but - while I don't like huge uniform swathes of conifers as was typical of forestry planting in the lake district many years ago there is a distinctive atmosphere walking in that oddly open, shaded landscape of bare trunks between a carpet of pine needles and a canopy far above.
There's far too little forest in the world. I'll take all I can get and be grateful for it !
tenbears10
18-11-2004, 23:51
This (http://www.carrifran.org.uk/) looks like a good project to me.
Bill
RovingArcher
19-11-2004, 00:52
Yep, I agree. I'm thinking that anything that the John Muir Foundation has to do with, is a good project.
When I was a young man, I had the opportunity to wander the John Muir woods here in California. It was an outstanding outing and I've been meaning to get back to them and wander a little more. That is, if some brilliant jerkwater hasn't cut them down yet.
Mixed wood for me
Ancient woodlands moreso than newer (less that 100yrs old) and purely deciduous coming in at a favourable No 2 :wink:
This (http://www.carrifran.org.uk/) looks like a good project to me.
BillGreat idea,we need more of the same kind of thing country wide.
The mix has got to be a runaway favourite, hasn't it :wink:
Love mixed woodland the colour tones and depth as well as the mix of wildlife, it just cannot be beaten :o):
I agree about the John Muir Trust as well, the work that they do is tops IMO :biggthump
This (http://www.carrifran.org.uk/) looks like a good project to me.
Bill
I looked into that for the residential section of my gold DofE. I didnt do it though, instead i did conservation work on Lundy island for a week, highly reccomended to anyone. PM if you are interested??!!
I have gone with the... mixed. It is the best of both worlds, there are alot of resources available in both but i am thinking there may be more in deciduous woodland.
Brainflex
19-11-2004, 18:49
Mine! :nana: A mix of sycamore,larch and others.
Is somebody digging up the most ancient threads with polls in and voting? This is the second one I've noticed tonight, look how old the thread is!!
Scots_Charles_River
05-05-2007, 14:48
Can't beat a bit of Caledonian Pine forrest :) Ben Dubhcraig, Cairngorms, Glen Lyon etc. Well spaced for plenty of hammocking/camping space and enough wind protection.
Nick
fred gordon
05-05-2007, 20:33
I assume that 'woodland' means broadleaf woodland? If there is a good mix then you can do just about anything. I am surrounded by coniferous in my part of the world, but it's great to have something like birch amongst it. :D
Matt Weir
05-05-2007, 21:05
Local to me is all deciduous woodland but I have this image burned into my mind that I often recall like a dream I once had but cannot remember of a sparse coniferous scene carpeted in thick snow with a light snowfall that is absolutely and so silent that it's deafening.
I would love to find this place one day.
TheGreenMan
06-05-2007, 18:01
About This time of year magic forests spring up in tired urban centers. I got utterly lost in one a few years ago. I remembered the basic survival precept of staying put and the children's HUG A TREE program. My G/F at the time finally found me. We went to a restaurant, where, gaunt and tired I drank several cups of coffee and related fending off a charging rat. She suggested we go back in daylight to choose her Christmas tree. :nana:
:lmao:
Nice post :)
Best regards,
Paul.
Floyd Soul
06-05-2007, 21:19
Mine would be temperate broadleaf native to Ireland. Old growth with trees from six month saplings to 600 year old oaks.
Main canopy of oak and ash with understory of hawthorn, hazel, and holly. Then lots of bluebells, ramsons and wood anemones. The kind you'd find before we invented the axe!
demographic
07-05-2007, 22:15
Orchard :)
bushtank
07-05-2007, 22:57
sorry for being dumb but what is the differance between woodland and mix on the poll :confused:
oldsoldier
07-05-2007, 23:34
I voted mix, as I love the sound of the wind through the pine trees, and enjoy the darkness of a good coniferous forest. However, I also like the copses of birch, aspen, and all those other trees out there. And, when mountain laurel blooms, its a wonderful sight, even if my allergies hate it.
John Fenna
08-05-2007, 13:08
Mixed - for a wider range of resources and wildlife.
John
tristan j thomas
08-05-2007, 16:55
My favourite forest type will have to be a
miked for a wider range as john has said in his previous post
Tristan
I much prefer the variety you can get in a mixed woodland there is something majestic, everlasting almost about a tall evergreen tree standing out between deciduous trees in autumn. And IMHO I think there is more life to be seen in a mixed wood, animals, ground foliage etc.
miked for a wider range as john has said in his previous post Tristan
I like the idea of a miked forest - perhaps it will tell us if there IS a sound
when a tree falls but no-one's there to hear it :rolleyes:
I've limited experience (UK only) but you can't beat a bit of the leafy stuff,
so anything would do for me I think. Especially Kew gardens which, although
a bit 'tidy', has name tags on which is very considerate for those of us not
in the know.
I think a national name tag campaign would be great :D
I'm glad you posted that cos I'd forgotten about this thread and I actually giggled
at my own post there hehe.
A while back I went to one of the Kew Monday evening talks where the guy was telling
us about his time in Japan. He commented that seeing the names in Japanese script
made him wonder what it might be that he was looking at ;)
He was also talking about the raked gravel gardens - to be honest I'd always thought
they were a bit daft and vaguely pretentious - but having him explain the effort involved
and the symbolism behind some of it... actually very interesting. I bought my dad one
of those wee gimmicky 'zen garden' miniatures with sand in a box, some pebbles and
a tiny rake for christmas last year. He was quite amused with it :D
I'm gonna be different and say coniferous just because I feel at home there and it's magical walking along the tracks of trees with hardly any sunlight getting through and the still quietness. I'll often just sit down and look along the row of conifers it gives a great view of deer and other animals that like the hidden canopy of close coniferous forest. I won't mention the fact of loving pine needle tea too, aaaahhhh heaven :D
mr dazzler
09-11-2007, 09:08
I spent a lot of time wandering in FC coniferous forest (Stang on the Durham/North yorkshire border's) as a youngster, its only later in life I have got to spend more time in proper woodland's :D In suffolk theres stacks of oak, even in hedgerow's, plenty of ash, birch, hazel, not so much beech. Theres still a fair amount of coppice; with a few standard oks up above. It saddens me to se a deserted or misused woodland. Theres few better sights than a healthy coppice stool with 6 or 7 vigoruos poles emerging from it. Or a stand of poplars or willow near a stream or lake
I wonder how the scottish project is doing? Thers still a few places in North yorkshire (EG swaledale) where theres ancient oak wood's in sheltered parts of the river valley. I love seeing young oak's.
Timinwales
11-11-2007, 17:07
Has to be mixed for me, any forest is good but this time of year there is something special about mixed woodland that I can't put my finger on.
Tim
Local to me is all deciduous woodland but I have this image burned into my mind that I often recall like a dream I once had but cannot remember of a sparse coniferous scene carpeted in thick snow with a light snowfall that is absolutely and so silent that it's deafening.
I would love to find this place one day.
I may have found it myself. A lot of the coniferous woodland around Hohne in Germany, the last posting I was at before leaving the army for good, looked just like the woodland you describe. In winter, the snow would be on the trees and on the ground and the woodland seemed to compoletely change. Each footfall was a crunch as snow was compacted. Apart from that, it was perfectly silent, every now and then a deer would just appear from no where, stop and take a look then turn and bound away in total silence.
I watched Band of Brothers, and the woods around Hohne looked just like the woodland they portrayed as Bastogne, except the trees weren't exploding!
Bernie Garland
20-12-2007, 20:12
for me its English broad leaf woodland all the resources you'll ever need
robin wood
21-12-2007, 08:16
For me the difference is "ancient" or "secondary" whether conifer or broadleaf. Woodland takes hundreds of years to develop interest, probably our most interesting and unusual trees in this country are wood pasture trees not woodland. Ancient pollards that were lopped for timber when young with stock grazing below. I would rather be in a 150 year old stand of well thinned conifer than 150 year old broadleaf but 500 year old pollards on nice heath or flower rich grassland with an ancient mixed coppice alongside that would do for me.
A nice mix: I like conferious as i tend to find more herby stuuf in that kind i.e spagnum moss berriers etc.
Though you need some good trees.
John Fenna
29-12-2007, 17:40
A while back I voted for mixed.
I would now like to qualify that by saying - Mixed, but without too much £$%^&&^%$£^
blackthorn!
I am still getting thorns out of my handsafter exploring the potential of a local wood that turned out to be 99.99999% &%^%^&^%%$*&* thorn!
This exploration was 10 days ago!
Note to self - take stronger gloves next time......
I love the look of coniferous forest. But for resources it has to be deciduous (dunno if i spelled it right...its been a while since the school geography days).
canadianwildman
04-01-2008, 22:05
I like mix