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Forest

Do you know what forest is? It certainly is not just multitude of trees neither is it a combination of several tree species, because both conditions can be found present in a park or orchard, yet they do not make forest.

To understand what forest is let us watch its birth… Now, imagine that onto an abandon or fire-destructed land, which is covered with cinders and ashes winds have brought multitude of dark-brown, light, winged pine seeds.

About three million seeds have fallen on an area of one hectare. There are both large and small seeds here, both strong and weak ones. Some have fallen into small nice cosy holes, others onto hummocks. Some are strong and germinate easily, others are weak and can hardly spring up from the ground. Not all of them can germinate, of course; yet one-third part is sure to come to life.

So, one million off-springs have made their appearance. All the roots have come to work now. They try hard to get a better fix. Some off-springs prosper; others fail to get rooted.

The little ones that have survived come now to fight enemies. The winds brought grass seeds; the grasses sprang up quickly and are now taller and stronger than the baby-pines.

Field mice come to look for pine seeds, they try their teeth on young roots.

Before pine trees are five years of age, they have suffered cold autumn rains, heavy snowfalls, rapid spring flows and summer droughts. Lots of them could not survive the fight and perished. Out of one million only five thousand are left on the hectare area.

Up to the age of ten each pine of these five thousand has been fighting all alone, all by itself. Now that the trees are meeting their eleventh spring, they all keep together, their crowns have joined, their roots interlaced under the earth, they can withstand now many troubles, they stand now together, and are now influencing the environment, they dominate it because they have become forest! A new life, a forest life has begun. Towards the age of maturity only about five hundred trees are left on the one hectare area which we have been watching.