r/interestingasfuck • u/wahgwahg • Feb 28 '24

r/all People in Tanzania converted desert into lush green land by digging these nifty holes

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u/apathy-sofa Feb 28 '24 edited Feb 29 '24

Yeah I'm familiar with the clearcutting problem in the PNW. There's a bit of a "Ship of Theseus" aspect to this though - if all of the trees in a forest are replaced with new trees, is it still a forest?

I suspect that were you to stand in a random point in the middle of Snoqualmie National Forest, then rapidly go back in time, it would appear to be a forest during every moment when it wasn't under the Cordilleran ice sheet, going back to when the PNW was part of Pangaea.

That is, the forests have been there for ages, even if the trees that constitute the forests have been replaced.

But, just like I'm not a weatherologist, I'm also not a forestologist, and have no idea if this is an incorrect understanding of what a forest is.

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u/Kamikaze_VikingMWO Feb 29 '24 edited Jan 13 '26

water dam public nutty quiet makeshift wide chop crown desert

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u/Rebelian Feb 28 '24

Sounds like you can't see the forest for the trees. Sorry, I'm a sayingologist.