More to the eye in plantation

THERE’S a forestry plantation a couple of kilometres from my house. It’s about 60 or 70 years old, growing on the drained fringe of a raised bog and the trees are lodgepole pines.

Mon, 28 Nov, 2016 - 00:00

Dick Warner

It’s not a very impressive plantation from a forestry point of view.

The trees are stunted and contorted.

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