A Forest Begins: Timelapse of a Planted Forest

In 2015, the Oregon Forest Resources Institute installed two solar-powered cameras in a working forest in Oregon’s Coast Range. Because of its climate, the region is well-known as an ideal place to grow conifer trees quickly. The hope was to clearly document the speed and vigor of that growth. But it doesn’t occur in days. It takes years.
The cameras were installed in recent clearcuts. One documented the trees that had been planted two years prior. The other camera documented trees that were planted seven years prior. For the next seven years, the cameras took photos every day, with a few exceptions (thanks to wildlife or the weather). Those photos were collected twice every year and compiled into this video.
The timelapse footage details how quickly trees planted after logging can grow tall and thick, creating a closed canopy. Reforestation efforts help speed along the process of forest regeneration. As you’ll see in the video, given full sun conditions, good soil and moisture, this new forest is off to a great start.
To learn more about reforestation in Oregon, visit oregonforests....
Thanks to Stimson Lumber for allowing us access to film on their forestland.

[@coltenpatton6102]

Had a hard time finding a tree farm video time lapse thanks for posting this

[@Uncloudy]

♥️🌲♥️ Do you have any time lapse photography from the tree planting and recovery from the wildfires a few years ago?
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[@martyminus90]

Need more diversity

[@jonfrohnmayer]

This is a tree plantation. It's not a forest.

[@aap71]

Fuck, that's slow! They should have planted 10 year old saplings and sped up the process by a decade! The 10 year old trees were still smaller than a man.

[@WithOneInTheChamber]

It’s letting it still be natural as a forest, it’s not a farm

[@WithOneInTheChamber]

The wouldn’t be able to survive in nature being replanted that large

[@boardbysled]

The logistics of what your proposing is impossible.

[@helenawald2978]

@@WithOneInTheChamber It is a farm, a monoculture! It doesn't have the diversity that a natural forest would have.

[@Shoelace3394]

I’ve worked at a tree nursery before, if you wait till year 4 most of these trees will have massive and tangled roots and will suffer major damage from transfer.
Planting them at 2 year old is the sweet spot of big enough to succeed and small enough to be mass produced/transfer/planted