https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60348947
EXCERPTS: It is the untold story of the winter storms. More than eight million trees have been brought down and many are now threatened by another two named storms bearing down on Britain.
Forest managers warn that already "catastrophic" damage will be made worse by Storms Dudley and Eunice. There are warnings that the heating climate is making our weather more severe and unpredictable, and that management and planting strategies must adapt more quickly.
Forest ranger Richard Tanner says that he's never seen a real battlefield, but the west shore of Lake Windermere now reminds him of photographs he has seen.
"It looks like someone's set off a bomb." [...] All around are the giant root plates of fallen trees, some the size of caravans, studded with rocks torn from the earth.
"There's three tonnes of tree and then five or six tonnes of earth maybe. And that's all got to be dealt with. We've lost thousands and thousands of trees just on this one property."
[...] The storms are savaging Scotland with the greatest force. After Storm Arwen in November, 4,000 hectares of woodland were blown down...
[...] Mr Archer says that it's vital to keep planting trees - even though they can blow down.
"We've got to sink carbon, we've got to have places for people to enjoy, we need timber and we also need habitats for the wildlife that's around us. We will tidy this up and try to recover this wood for the next generation. It will take 40 to 50 years before anything is back here, but we are dedicated to doing it." (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPTS: It is the untold story of the winter storms. More than eight million trees have been brought down and many are now threatened by another two named storms bearing down on Britain.
Forest managers warn that already "catastrophic" damage will be made worse by Storms Dudley and Eunice. There are warnings that the heating climate is making our weather more severe and unpredictable, and that management and planting strategies must adapt more quickly.
Forest ranger Richard Tanner says that he's never seen a real battlefield, but the west shore of Lake Windermere now reminds him of photographs he has seen.
"It looks like someone's set off a bomb." [...] All around are the giant root plates of fallen trees, some the size of caravans, studded with rocks torn from the earth.
"There's three tonnes of tree and then five or six tonnes of earth maybe. And that's all got to be dealt with. We've lost thousands and thousands of trees just on this one property."
[...] The storms are savaging Scotland with the greatest force. After Storm Arwen in November, 4,000 hectares of woodland were blown down...
[...] Mr Archer says that it's vital to keep planting trees - even though they can blow down.
"We've got to sink carbon, we've got to have places for people to enjoy, we need timber and we also need habitats for the wildlife that's around us. We will tidy this up and try to recover this wood for the next generation. It will take 40 to 50 years before anything is back here, but we are dedicated to doing it." (MORE - missing details)