Il pedaggio di 500 milioni di euro di Storm Éowyn sulla silvicoltura irlandese rivelata dalle immagini satellitari
https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2025/03/15/satellite-imagery-reveals-storm-eowyns-500m-toll-on-irish-forestry/
di TeoKajLibroj
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I couldn’t believe the amount of damage the storm caused. My local forest in Galway looks like it was hit by a hurricane. Most of the paths are blocked and repair work hasn’t even begun.
Our native woodland is being neglected, chopped down or ravaged by Honey Fungus and the like. This storm should be a real eye opener on the declining health of our ecosystems.
Yes the storm was unprecedented but in healthier woodlands, I cant imagine the damage being this bad. Not an ecologist so if im wrong on this please correct me
Good. I wish they were all blown down. A blight on our landscape and a wildlife dead zone.
Our native trees came out largely unscathed.
There was barely a breeze in Dublin.
And we’re going to fix that by cutting down great swathes of the trees that are left. We don’t deserve this country.
Watch us make the same mistakes of the past and replant on unsuitable habitats
These aren’t the forests we need to worry about.
Maybe if we actually planted native trees then there would’ve been less blown down
Gunna be more regular headlines like this too
Fucking joking that trees cost a penny.
Can it be seen? Nature provides without asking
Bounty. Man placed a price upon its head
Man doesn’t own the forest
I watched a podcast with the two Irish billionaire brothers from Stripe, and one of them mentioned that he has bought an amount of original Irish ancient woodland to try and preserve it because its all endangered essentially, which seemed to bother him.
Should sell him the whole lot since nobody of those we’ve chosen to elect seem forward thinking enough to stop problems before they reach a point of no return
(Not their problem if they’re not gonna be in office then id say is the mindset)
Most of what was blown down wasn’t “forests” but just timber plantations consisting of random plots of land with thousands of spruce trees growing on top of each other
We obviously need timber, though from what I’ve read because of how we cram so many trees so close to each other and mostly on small plots of saturated bogland the quality of timber is terrible, so even on that front our forestry strategy is awful.
That’s bull
My local forest was devastated. At least 50% blown over or damaged. It wasn’t true forest though, it was Sitka plantations, and I’m happy those shallow-rooted bastards are blown over. Bar two big exceptions, the natives (inc. beech) are fine. I have emailed the regional head of coillte about replanting with natives, particularly where good stands of natives already exist. I have no doubt that emailing coillte about this was a futile endeavour: a semi state who care only for their profit margins should not be in control of native woodlands.
Anybody who has walked though those conifer plantations knows that they are absolute deserts, nothing lives there except a handful of insects. I’d love to see a concerted effort to cultivate forests of native trees.
I’ve a winter’s load of wood saved so far with another eight or nine trees to go, and I’m running out of space. I’m sure others are in the same situation, so there is some silver lining.