February 11th, 2025 Livestream
Q&A: If Northern Forest is Swedish-inspired, what Biome is Dutch-inspired?
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if Northern forest biome is Swedish inspired what Swedish inspired what would a Dutch inspired biome look like oh God, you already you already know this s postm, the Dune forests the Western Dune forests and the Eastern Dune Forest are both inspired by a type of landscape found in the Netherlands not only there also in other places, in in Dutch called a Zur diving which is essentially just a a patch of forest that has due to environmental circumstances, essentially it's just Dunes like sand dunes, so it's a mix of like fur forest and sand duns which is a very odd combination, because this is also in a cold climate so it's it looks like a miniature desert in the middle of a kind of more like cold cold climate Forest, so so, the drun S exactly that's hex hextra fresh that's exactly the, the one of the places that I have been to that I basis on, because I grew up near there, and, as far as I understood this is a landscape that forms because because I mean pretty much most of the Netherlands was Marshland, so it was like it was extremely flat and flooded, and it has been sort of like completely like dried up artifici usually, and also there used to be I think it's also because there used to be glaciers like kind of carving into the landscape way back when, and- I think that made it it I'm not quite sure exactly what the geology behind it is but it made parts of the ground like either infertile or like the sea level was receded to such a point but it left the dunes behind stuff like that but yeah I don't know it's a very it's a very cool sort of, combination and I've seen I've seen kind of stuff like this in very the the very North of Sweden as well, where you have these like, like forests with like pine pine forests and it's just really it's a really sandy like ground that you're on it's kind of an interesting combination, yeah and you can you can find this this kind of landscape I think like all over the world, but I particularly grew up near one so I use that one as an inspiration because it's not really a combination you see pretty much anywhere in media very often so yeah