Comments on: NPs https://bdkiron.com/2013/02/05/3270/ more than a dog Wed, 28 Apr 2021 03:51:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: BDK https://bdkiron.com/2013/02/05/3270/#comment-7 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 04:08:50 +0000 http://boomerang.bdkiron.com/?p=3270#comment-7 Probably the case. I don’t know how the NPs are managed in Germany. They have many of the trappings of US NPs, smokey the bear hats, etc. do it’s clear they used the US for a model in some respects.

It’s just an odd sight to see in a NP, but my reference point is perhaps unfair.

]]> By: Wendy Keefer https://bdkiron.com/2013/02/05/3270/#comment-6 Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:00:22 +0000 http://boomerang.bdkiron.com/?p=3270#comment-6 I would imagine German NP’s are much like those in the UK in having largely planted areas of forest. In the UK the logging is part of a management program which partly funds the NP. Here, there is also a program of replacing the pine and spruce which was planted 100+ yrs ago with the natural range of hardwoods and broad leaf species the island would have had before agriculture took over. The hope is to increase the biodiversity which always suffers when a monoculture is planted. (This is counter-acted by a recent government approval of using some greenbelt land for house building – Urrg!)

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