High and slender growing birches

Birches grow slender and high in search for the light, in the moist birch-oak forest of the Molenven, a forest reserve with zero-maintenance in the Netherlands, province Twente Photo's made during a paleo-ecologic excursion 'Reading the Landscape' in Twente, the Netherlands - guided by Henry Hooghiemstra, paleo-ecologist on the UVA (University of Amsterdam)