Treeaddict
Treehouser
What dost thou thinketh?
Don’t know too much about where you guys are, but in Western Europe you could wait 100 years or more from an abandoned agricultural field to any sort of forest, even then it’ll be mostly birch or other pioneer species.Eventually. Maybe. Never as quickly as is wise if you wish to manage for a crop that is designed to meet our appetite for wood fiber in an efficient manner.
I didn't watch the vid. I believe I've heard the argument before, and it is complete horsepucky in my admittedly biased opinion.
If you don't plant for desired species, and manage competition to encourage those species, then you get undesired species in ascendency for what can sometimes be many decades, or longer.
If all you care about is getting something, anything, growing, then that's easy. Just cut and run. You'll get a brush patch for decades before a few Douglas fir manage to soldier through, in small numbers per acre (as an example of what will happen here on the west slopes of the Cascades).
Because that's what this vid is advocating. Cut and run.