LOL They planted the trees much to closely together. Disease will easily pass from tree to tree. Creating a fire hazard.
I think the artist is missing the point that unused land is reclaimed quickly by nature. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is an example. It’s filled with trees and wildlife.
I’ve seen local farmland and pastures revert to pine trees in 10 to 15 years. The original family gets older and stops working the land. Nature soon fills it with brush and trees. Pine seems to pop up the quickest in my state. Pine will completely take over unused land in 25 years. It can be harvested for good money.
This artist’s exhibit looks like an abandoned stadium that has been overrun with trees. The mowed grass is the only tip off it’s maintained by people.
Would you want to visit this artist’s idea of a forrest?
Someone really needs to take this guy backpacking. Learn just how beautiful nature can be.
I’ve spent much of my life hiking and backpacking. I embraced “leave no trace” behind decades ago. I love the forrest and meadowlands. They need to be treasured & protected.
Sorry for the triple post. I’ve been a environmentalist most of my adult life. Getting outside on a hike is something I have to do. It feeds me and makes it possible to live & work in a city.
The forrest exhibit could be a very cool project. Space out the trees correctly. Add in natural scrub trees. A short trail would allow visitors to interact with the exhibit. There’s nothing quite like looking up 60 feet to the tops of trees.
I have visited areas in nature where the trees were that thick. They tend to be areas that have seen a fire or been clear cut. The trees come back in all at once and thick as they regrow. Only over time does the competition for resources like water and sunlight sort out the weak from the more widely dispersed winners. Those trees are on the bigger side for areas I’ve seen that are that thick with trees. I’d expect to see more that are looking a bit sickly as they trend towards sorting out the lack of spacing.
Natures answer to trees “planted” too close includes things like disease and fire not starting off with trees sprouting with better separation. I’m not seeing the issue you have with that. Since the artist isn’t planning to leave the trees in that football stadium long term that’s not really an issue for the display. He’s showing part of the lifecycle in some forests and then moving the trees outdoors for permanent planting.
I don’t know that I would choose that location for hiking or camping. I have been in areas for recreation where that was part of the overall terrain, though. I just mostly worked around it. The Army didn’t seem concerned when they made me go into them though. Well, the post environmental office could get extremely concerned about what happens when a tank ends up in an area like that.
It looks like it’s an art installation, scheduled for removal next month. It’s not a permanent planting, so it doesn’t seem like the spacing is relevant. If you’d like to see Trees Planted Too Close Together by developers, come to my neighborhood.
I would certainly enjoy walking through that exhibit–but again, that’s not really the point.
This installation is based on a surreal painting by Max Peintner–it’s meant to look surreal. The stadium is not abandoned at all. When the installation is removed next month, it will go to continue as the home of the Klagenfurt soccer team.
They are a mix of alder, aspen, field maple, and common oak trees that came from nurseries. I think that means that they’re likely to be disease-free and because they’re different species, disease is unlikely to spread among them.
It’s Art for arts sake, first off.
2nd it’s meant to make you consider the need and advantages of forested lands. Instead of looking at trees in an artificial setting. Like a nature Zoo.
It’s an *art *project. That’s basically the definition for something that’s not supposed to be natural. Do you also complain that Franz Marc’s horses are blue?
