Lots of little trees with white tips. From where?

Question

Here in the Black Forest, I've recently been finding whole areas in the forest where almost all the smaller trees have white tips. It looks as if someone has gone through the forest with a bucket of emulsion paint and dipped every tree top in it. The person must have been very industrial in our area. But it's only the very small trees (up to about 1m) that have this white tip.

Does anyone know what this is? Does it somehow occur naturally or is it actually the work of a forestry worker? If so, why?

buschmeister62 · Answer

I haven't seen anything like that yet.

nomex64 · Answer

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darline98 · Answer

This is a medium to bite that comes to the tree every 6 months in this case spruce that the forest owner has provided this as a protective measure so that the animals do not break the plants but a horde would be more sensual.

foerster2017 · Answer

Obviously, the forest owner no longer knew how to help but to protect his trees (fir) from tear damage. Unfortunately, this is necessary everywhere where irresponsible involuntary or incapable hobby hunters feed and approach high levels of rainfall in winter instead of fulfilling their ecological task. It would actually be their duty to keep the stock on an ecologically compatible scale for wolf, lynx and bear. In areas where responsible well-trained hunters hunt, all tree species grow without fences and chemical bite protection paints and an ecologically valuable climate-stable mixed forest can develop and sustained by mixed natural tree growth itself.