[cmrdporcupine]

Sounds like softwood lumber forestry in general in western Canada, too. Mass monocrop plantations, then basically clearcut and replanted.

And at least when I was a kid and out in the foothills camping with parents, huge users of herbicides, too.

They'd attempt be PR-clever about it, too. Along the major roads, it looked all nice. Get about 200ft in on a gravel logging road and you'd see mass clearcuts. Fly over in a small plane, you get a really "nice" vista.

I wonder if the difference you're seeing is softwood vs hardwood?

[treprinum]

Vancouver island is famous for that. In comparison to Eastern Europe the monocultures in Canada get mostly replanted, in the Eastern Europe they most often don't.

[ahartmetz]

Eh, it seems like, historically, forests did not get replanted until the wood ran out, and then they did ;)

When that point was reached is very different by region.