to root if it wasn't for the monocultures being so tightly
planted

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saiya-jin
We have this back home, pine monoculture planted some 50-60 years ago to make
parts of mountains more visually appealing (and probably more good reasons
like cleaner air). In 2004 there was a freak storm with quite strong winds,
half of that forest was destroyed, in many cases trees literally snapped in
the middle of the trunk. Still pretty bad sight 25 years later.

They said it was freak accident that happens every few hundred years. Well
there was another one few years after, and few other smaller ones since then.

Now its largely left on its own as being national park with highest protection
level, but this has some (hopefully relatively short term) negative effects -
population of bugs eating trees exploded and they are destroyingyears many Conservatives have scratched their heads and wondered what makes the prime minister tick. Is he a metropolitan, liberal Conservative who hugs hoodies and huskies? Or is he a rural, right-wing Conservative with traditional views on Europe and law and order?

Today the prime minister's answer was that he may be an old Etonian from Berkshire with a stockbroker for a father, but he is not on the side of the better off, he is on the side of those who want to be better off. He is not a "cartoon Conservative" who does not care, but a compassionate Conservative who supports anyone who aspires to get on. In his most telling phrase, he said: "I am not here to defend privilege, I'm here to spread it."

Mr Cameron