In South Africa, Oak trees brought here by Europeans are one of the "drawing points" for a few beautiful places. The trees though (or so I've been told) grow more per season. This makes them brittle, and they "hollow out" as the hardwood almost crackles and disintegrates.
This means the trees become dangerous as they get old, and never make it past a few centuries.
What, if any, is the odds that the great northern forests will suffer the same fate?
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In South Africa, Oak trees brought here by Europeans are one of the "drawing points" for a few beautiful places. The trees though (or so I've been told) grow more per season. This makes them brittle, and they "hollow out" as the hardwood almost crackles and disintegrates.
This means the trees become dangerous as they get old, and never make it past a few centuries.
What, if any, is the odds that the great northern forests will suffer the same fate?