>>2691315It is common for people to confuse shrubs from trees. Excluding cultivated fruit trees--whose life spans are significantly reduced for productivity--there isn't a native tree in north America that lives less than 150 years and most average several hundred.
Most willows, for example, are actually considered shrubs.
Hell, aspen are functionally immortal if you leave them alone.
There is also forest succession--which most people don't understand that they're artificially suppressing old growth and the forest around them isn't the "final form".. it's the baby form.
