They’ve got it backwards. Forests start as mostly pine until the larger oaks move in and block out the sun.
I think grampa has a tree identification problem. It looks like a spruce forrest or something, definitely not pines.
To grandpa all evergreens look like pines
He’s a bit… stuck in a rut
Racist grampa tree has a point, though. Monocultural conifer tree forests are oftentimes a bad idea. We have a lot of problems with our (artificially created) monocultural conifer forests here in German lately. Basically they are just dying of large scale, due do pests. It really is heartbreaking to see hectars of dead trees. Multiculturalism is just the better way and leads to stronger societies, ehm, forests.
not necessarily stronger, but definitely more resilient
