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neongecko12 t1_jc6hhmd wrote

Reply to comment by Kended in A thousand eyes staring at you in a forest in southern Germany [OC] [3888x5184] by tegucigalpa1337

It's commercial woodland. They're planted in rows as it's easiest for the machinery to deal with. The trees grow up as they have to compete for light as they're so close together, there's no point growing branches low down, as that wastes energy.

It's not particularly biodiverse, but it's often better than most of the other profitable uses for the land in an environmental sense.

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aCleverGroupofAnts t1_jc6og9a wrote

Any thoughts on the grass? In my part of the US, I've never seen a forest where the ground is covered in grass like that.

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neongecko12 t1_jc6pk33 wrote

It's more than likely moss, not grass.

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aCleverGroupofAnts t1_jc6pq9s wrote

Ohhh interesting. Still rather unusual from my perspective. Do they keep the ground clear from fallen leaves and branches?

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neongecko12 t1_jc6rouz wrote

Not usually. Everything piles up underneath and gets slowly composted into the soil. Those sort of trees don't have very big branches anyway, so there's not much big litter. Just a constant falling of the needles.

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kingpiss t1_jc79irf wrote

moss like that is pretty common in the pacific northwest

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