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"The elk has no teeth in the upper jaw, but only a hard palate, and cannot chew on thick twigs. About 3-4 millimeters is the maximum limit. The anatomical differences later make it possible to distinguish between elk and deer foraging. The latter have a full set of dentition, thanks to which they gnaw at both the bark and shoots. The moose, on the other hand, catches a strip of bark with its teeth and tears it off with its head. Only the detached strand of the bark is chewed and swallowed. Unfortunately, such head-strokes with great force sometimes cause a young tree to break. And here is the moose buried. Crop destroyer and cabbage killer. Neither the rape field nor the several-year-old young veneer seedlings can resist it. Unfortunately, our forestry farming is not well adapted to dealing with large herbivorous mammals. There are barely a bit more of them than the noticeable amount, and it turns out that they are "too much" and too "harmful", which results in "the need to manage them". Bison is chased away with hay and maize, but it is hard to find a suitable method and cheap food for elk to distract them from the seedlings. Climate change is stabbing us in the back. It is impossible to replace pine plantations with spruce plantations, which apparently tastes much less to elks and has a much better chance of growing into a good quality board. Scandinavia is carrying out such experiments, while trying to increase the acreage of rowan, willow, aspen and oak. On our ground, such a rejection of the principles of silviculture is not an option. Planting large-scale admixture and undergrowth species as the main stand? It does not fit in with the forest worldview. This would mean sacrificing large areas of the state timber warehouse. However, this is one of the necessary paths that we will not escape in this age of climate change. So far it is a very difficult task. This can be seen in how the institution of the State Forests defends itself against the creation of another national park or the exclusion of particularly valuable natural forest areas from use. And abandon the economy of hundreds of hectares? To create some groves of rowan, aspen and maple? However, climate change is already letting us know that northern and coniferous species in our zone are less and less likely to survive. We will have to change the species composition of forests and replace the forests with forests. " A fragment of the book by Piotr Dombrowski and Paweł Średziński entitled "Moose. Stories about gawkers from the Biebrza region"
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