G. Redwoods In-Transition (a couple very important trees)

Each tree represents something that brings meaning to your life.

All of the trees together represent your life.

Larger trees have greater importance.

Smaller trees are less important or new.

About this forest:

This forest is sunny because it is has space for new trees.
- Space may have been created by a fallen tree lost to a past disturbance.
In other forests, gaps tend to fill quickly by growth of new or surrounding trees - but this forest tends to have unique conditions and establishment of new trees is a slow process - thus this forest may remain un-full for an extended time.
This leads to reduced competition between existing trees leading to less stress and greater disturbance resistant
Despite great potential for robust trajectories, being un-full can resemble suppressed forests.

Differences from suppressed forests:

Both have a few important trees with room for growth
Here most remaining trees are healthy and any trajectory is possible
In contrast, most trees in a suppressed forests have restricted growth due to challenging environmental conditions
Establishment of new trees is more difficult in suppressed forests

Community Insight

[Gathering community insights from the quiz and comments]

Famous people possibly at this stage:

Russell Crowe
Jaiden Animations

Life is about the journey.

Where are you going?

Maintaining this forest represents a RESERVED trajectory!

Alternatively, disturbance can strike unexpectedly.

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Whether a slow rot or a quick uprooting, the future has the following options:

Resistant

Resilience

Revolutionary

Resistant

Existing trees grow in importance to fill the forests resulting in a life dominated by several giant trees.

E. Several Giant Trees

Resilient/Resourceful

New trees fill in the gap.
Forest composition changes but size and density stay about the same.

D. Many trees that range in size

Disturbance

The large trees in this less-competitive forest type are highly resistant to disturbance - however, disturbance is always possible.
New trees may be more susceptible to disturbance.
If the disturbance is large or recurring, it can lead to suppressed forests or to fewer important trees - see Singularly Robust

F. Recent Disturbance

Revolutionary

Rather than trying to fill the gap quickly, a revolutionary trajectory can be achieved by slowly establishing new trees that are uniquely adapted to occupy diverse niches, minimize competition with important existing trees, and create a robust Old Growth forest.

J. Old Growth

Concluding Thoughts and Discussion

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