treetops or summit – that is the question. Forester Robert Nörr gives insight into the technical language.

For the layman, the thing is actually clear: A tree has a canopy, a mountain has a summit, and both of these should not be confused. Therefore, has wondered our editorial about, of all things, a Forester, and therefore the absolute experts, have spoken in the days of snow chaos’ are regularly of the “tree tops” – and the burden you have to bear at the moment. Peaks or tops? It’s high time to clarify the matter. We spoke with Forester Robert Nörr.

+ Robert NörrFörster in Wolfratshausen,Icking and Egling.

“we foresters are actually entitled to both of the terms common and equal. The tops or peaks – it makes no difference to us. Thus, for example, even the top Bud. The highest Bud is meant to a tree. Where is the difference to the normal use of language comes from is hard to say. But it is certain that the Tree tops or tree tops had to suffer in the last days difficult under the wet snow. The snow fraction is to penetrate the tree such as a wound, in the moisture or fungal spores. The tree will try to close this wound, first with resin, then with fabric. In the spring you will be able to on walks in the forest to notice, as in the case of the affected spruces of the sun branches grow upward, the. By the the fracture you have suffered, compared to the trees around them, a competitive disadvantage. Everything in the forest is a struggle for light.“

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