Questions tagged [forestry]
For questions about the maintenance, creation and development of a forest or area with congregated trees.
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What climate would be ideal for abnormally large trees, with people living among them?
I'm writing a fantasy with trees which are extremely wide, and fairly tall. Their width would be about 40-50 metres.
So I was wondering if the climate needed to be similar to that of a rainforest, or ...
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Why would a rural village need rope in times of famine?
My protagonist needs food from a village during times of a famine, and all she can offer (or pretend to offer) is spinning their animal hair to make rope (nobody else has those skills.) Is there a way ...
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Where could a family live in seclusion and operate a mill year-round?
Where could this be?
I'd like to have a small family (2 parents, 3-4 kids) living completely off-the-grid in some remote forest in the US. The story takes place in modern times. They have a well-...
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Can I Passively redirecting air currents with forest gardening?
A group of evil farmers have developed a technique for manipulation of the weather on a large scale whereby the land is altered to effect the temperature of the air above and to act as a trap for ...
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How would a medieval society clear a jungle?
How would a late medieval to early renaissance society clear a 200,000mi² jungle?
This country is also a version of the Mexico-sized country referenced here, but much younger, and without the moving ...
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What alcoholic drinks would my people make?
In 280 BC a Gaulish tribe became stranded in a forest with no access to grains/potatoes/cultivated grapes. (Magic handwavy - no access to anybody else or land that isn't a forest). They have fresh ...
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How to have controlled forest burning with medieval technology?
Related to my previous question, I figured that the method of hunting a dragon by burning the forest it was in has to be sustainable to make it reliable. The fire must have minimal impact on the ...
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How can massive forest burning be an entirely terrible thing?
I'm writing a story about a fantasy medieval world where flightless dragons roam vast tropical rainforests (like Vietnam or Borneo) and preys on animals and people alike. These dragons are so powerful ...
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What natural force would prevent dragons from burning all the forests in the world?
So, dragons. Considering the classic wyvern depiction, they are large flying carnivores that breathe fire. Considering not only the fact that flying animals have much higher metabolisms than their ...
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How can an open area prevent its inhabitants from leaving? [closed]
Long ago, the elven races were embroiled in a civil war called the sundering. This war split the elves into different groups, which eventually became separate races. The elves that remained in their ...
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How tall would a rainforest need to be to make it completely dark at ground level
Most of the sunlight in a rainforest is intercepted by its canopy. Only about 2% of the light reaches the ground. How tall would a rainforest need to be to make it completely dark at ground level? ...
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Why can't my huge trees be chopped down?
In my world there is a forest of huge trees which people can't or won't chop down. The trees are similar to redwood trees but they have a large crown and no lower branches. The forest is quite dark ...
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Questions about sick trees in wood
I want to write a piece of fiction about a female tree caretaker who researches a small group of beeches in a wood.
When she arrives, she sees that the trees are dried out. Is it realistic to say ...
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Can Aspen forests have other species of tree present?
In a world dominated by steppe, the warmest regions give way into parklands dominated by stands of Aspen.
My research suggests that Aspen groves may tend to exclude other species of tree, but I am ...
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How would a medieval army conquer a treetop city?
In my book series, an evil space conqueror named Tate is attacking the planet of Aztlan. However, in order to do so, he must subjugate the Avian tribe and their capital city of Palo Alto. However, ...
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How quickly do forests spread in a temperate climate?
On a continent similar to modern-day Europe with a temperate climate, 90% of the continent's flat and hilly land was once covered by native forest. Human activity has reduced that to 10%.
A ...
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A 40km alien saucer is floating 1km above central Africa for a long time. What are the effects on the rainforest below?
Earlier this year, a second alien saucer came to Earth and stopped 1 kilometer above the central African nation of Wakanda. The Wakandans are fine with this and refuse to let anyone investigate or do ...
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Is it possible to justify heavy infantry and cavalry in tropical jungle?
There's a empire with big jungles (60% is covered by jungle). Actually, I wanted the empire to use a lot of heavy infantry and cavalry. After doing some research, however, this seems to have hardly ...
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If tree sap looked like blood, would we be less inclined to cutting trees down? [closed]
Compassion
We often feel more concern about the pain inflicted to animal that have expression that are more intuitive to us. We are more compassionate with a chimpanzee than a trout, in part because ...
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Can a forest have continuous fog?
I am writing a story set in a fantasy world, with an atmosphere similar to Earth's. Would it be possibly to have a forest situated near wetlands which create radiation fog at night, which drifts into ...
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Could you import enough water into an ecosystem to make a new rainforest?
So a rainforest creates a positive feedback loop—vegetation creates evapotranspiration which encourages rainfall, which in turns encourages more vegetation.
If you wanted to badly enough, could you ...
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Can you actually have a Forest Kingdom?
Is there any way to set a kingdom in a forest so that it still is a forest instead of a clearing surrounded by forest?
The kingdom must live on the ground, and somehow, if transplanted to Renaissance ...
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What event could leave an ancient forest so burned it's impassable to humans and cause Centaurs and Humans to work together?
One of the borders of my map is a forest that was burned so badly and for such a great distance that it is currently impassable for humans. There is a once-great city on the edge of the burned forest ...
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City in a hollow tree
As a tree grows new layers are added each year so that the trunk expands in radius. The living part of the tree is a relatively thin layer on the outside just beneath the bark, and the wood further ...
