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Black Forest, Germany - Photos

Environment  (tags: nature, wildlife, forests, climate, ecosystems, environment, habitat )

Goran
- 82 days ago - planet-3rd.blogspot.com
Geologically, the Black Forest consists of a cover of sandstone on top of a core of gneiss. During the last glacial period, the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers; several cirques such as the Mummelsee are remains of this period.
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AB L. (51)
Friday July 25, 2008, 4:55 am
thank you for that Goran, but I live in the black Forest and some of the info written is just not true...sorry:!!! beautiful pictures anyway..
The Forest is not primary pine and fir, acctually that is changed over the last years to help keep the forest healthy..the link below will explain ,
this is a beautiful link to many forests..one of the the Black Forest
http://www.forests-forever.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi
there are many wonderful wild ancient forest pictures and explanations about them..
Wikipedia is very informative as well..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Forest
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