What a European forest was like before the Middle Ages

[wm.annis]

A great article from one of my favorite essayists, URL REMOVED BY ADMINISTRATOR.

Edited by wm, using a URL shortener: Bialowieza Forest.

[wm.annis]

I have insulated the forum software from the characters issue...

[Seze Mune]

"The principal large mammals in Białowieża are the bison, moose, wolf, boar, bobcat, and graduate student. The last spends a lengthy juvenile period studying forest theory in Western Europe before migrating in to do field work and possibly mate. The nutrient-rich graduate student is a cornerstone of the forest food pyramid, a conveniently mobile, heated feed bag for a variety of small cosmic horrors. Since there is so little real forest left in Europe, the supply of these initially pink-cheeked graduate students is limitless and easily replenished. If you step quietly, so as not to spook them, you can see them sometimes through the trees, catching frogs with nets, cataloguing the various insects buried in their skin, or peering resignedly into bird holes. They look pale. "

HRH!!

[Seze Mune]

In Poland's primeval forest, a Nazi scientist re-created an extinct breed of horse. Or did he?

Read more: Galloping Ghosts

[Seze Mune]

A great article from one of my favorite essayists, URL REMOVED BY ADMINISTRATOR.

Edited by wm, using a URL shortener: Bialowieza Forest.

The article is very clever, funny and DEFINITELY worth the read!  Highly recommended. 

[Kamean]

Agree, great article.

[Tsmuktengan]

Wow. Thank you for sharing this. This is a very interesting article. This forest is on no way comparable to the huge amount of forests we have in France... that are yet so young and that were too much maintained and clean to appear "natural".