>>2837014By animals I mean wild boars and deer
Heres the way its done in Poland from what I heared, where they have high pine monoculture.
The animals use the pine forest for sleeping, occasional eating during spring/summer and hiding. During summer and autumn, the animals use the farms as food source. And during winter, in Europe they not only use feeders but also seeds from the cones.
Anyways, I researched more and chatgpt said missouri has around 0.11-0.30 hogs per km2, while westren poland for example (where the forests are pretty much pines, such as Tuchola) has 0.91-1 boars per km2
So yes, those pine forests arent great man but they arent unliveable deserts.
The best fix to this, while maintaining industrial needs and ecological needs would be to pretty much add oaks aswell, not only to alkalize the soil but also for acorns.
^^ This would benefit agriculture aswell as the animals
Im happy that polish foresters have started to add more birch, aspen and oaks into their lands
Anyways, back to my point about USA vs Europe, US has alot of pine monocultures like this, and they look way worse aswell, with 0 greeness. Atleast the polish pine forests have moss, mushrooms and berries
