>>2247606>Some live oaks here are close to if not over 1000 years old.What does that have to do with rewilding? And the other anons point that planting forests has been going on for ages and that the middle ages might have had less trees than given credit for?
We had a pine forest near the coast that was planted in the 13th century, and then plots of it would be cut as needed and then replanted. (I said "had" because a good part of it burned down 4 or 5 years ago)
Again, old trees =/= wild, we (Portugal) have 3 olive trees over 2000 years old (estimated age).
All of them are currently less than 50 meters from a fucking house, in places that have been populated non-stop for 1000 years or more. It's not rewilding anytime soon.
Meanwhile a considerable portion of our forest cover is fucking eucalyptus for the fucking industry (so all less than 5-10 years old).
If we go by percentage of land mass of forest cover the US has as low of a forest cover as most European countries. (in the 30%s).
You having huge forests is more an accident of the land mass being fuckhuge than some sort of merit or particular love for wilderness.
