[omegant]

In the highlands it seems to be the case. Also lack of predators for wild deer. New trees get eaten and none reaches maturity.

[ddek]

Wild deer are the big issue. There's a small but vocal community pushing for wolf reintroduction, but that has it's own challenges. Scottish land law is extraordinarily complicated and archaic, it remain solely to prevent extinction of a far more damaging animal: the Edinburgh Lawyer.

I'm rarely as concerned about northern forests though. Fir trees count for half, or less, IMO. Without beech, silver birch, oak and yew the forest is fake.

[Nux]

Bring back the wolf, I say.

[mattowen_uk]

Farmers, then Vikings, then Weather, Then MORE farming, then the English, then World War 1.