Biology:Crooked Forest
Template:Infobox forest The Crooked Forest (Polish: Krzywy Las) is a grove of oddly-shaped Scots pine trees located in the village of Nowe Czarnowo near the town of Gryfino, West Pomerania, in north-western Poland. It is a protected natural monument of Poland.[1]
This grove of 400 pines was planted in around 1930. Each pine tree bends sharply to the north, just above ground level, then curves back upright after a sideways excursion of one to three meters (3–9 feet). The curved pines are enclosed by a surrounding forest of straight pine trees.[2] The trees grow to about 50 feet (15 m) in height.[3] At the time of planting this location was part of the German province of Pomerania.[3]
It is generally believed that some form of human tool or technique was used to make the trees grow or bend this way, but the method has never been determined, and remains a mystery to this day. It has been speculated that the trees may have been deformed to create naturally curved timber for use in furniture or boat building.[4][5] Others surmise that a snowstorm could have bent the trunks, but there is little evidence of that.[5][6]
The forest was featured in season 1, episode 4 of The UnXplained on the History channel titled "Unnatural Nature" that first aired on 9 August 2019.[7]
The site is open to the public and is a tourist attraction in the region.[8]
See also
- Dancing Forest
- Drunken trees
- Tree shaping
- Wood warping
References
- ↑ "Krzywy Las koło Gryfina" (in pl). https://gryfino.szczecin.lasy.gov.pl/krzywy-las-kolo-gryfina.
- ↑ "What Could Have Caused Poland's Crooked Forest?" (in en). July 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-could-have-caused-polands-crooked-forest/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Yang, Yvette (4 March 2020). "The Mystery of the Crooked Forest". Discovery. https://www.discovery.com/exploration/the-mystery-of-the-crooked-forest.
- ↑ Cieśliński, Piotr (15 January 2014). "Kto odkryje tajemnicę Krzywego Lasu" (in Polish). Wyborcza.pl. http://wyborcza.pl/1,75400,15274315,Kto_odkryje_tajemnice_Krzywego_Lasu.html. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Klein, Joanna (21 March 2017). "In Poland's Crooked Forest, a Mystery With No Straight Answer". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/science/crooked-forest-poland-theories.html.
- ↑ Quick, Stefania Rousselle, Joanna Klein, Samantha; Jaffe, Logan (31 March 2017). "Puzzle in Poland: Who Bent the Trees?". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000004944454/crooked-forest-puzzle-in-poland-who-bent-the-trees.html.
- ↑ "The UnXplained Pictures & Galleries: Unnatural nature". https://www.history.com/shows/the-unxplained/pictures/the-unxplained-unnatural-nature-photo-gallery. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
- ↑ Wroniewski, Sebastian (3 August 2020). "Krzywy Las koło Gryfina zostanie poddany rewitalizacji" (in Polish). https://swiatrolnika.info/krzywy-las#:~:text=Krzywy%20Las%20to%20jeden%20z,s%C4%85%20wygi%C4%99te%20pod%20k%C4%85tem%20ok..
External links
- Polish tourism page for the Crooked Forest Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist.
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