‘Breathing’ Forests Make for Some Treacherous Hunting Conditions

If you’ve been hunting long enough, you may have hunted through treacherous hunting conditions, or found yourself in a less than ideal treestand situation more times than once.

Perhaps it was an old treestand, or worse yet, one of those homemade deals your grandfather hunted out of when he was a youngster and now if you sneeze or lean out too far on one side the whole thing will either crumple or let out a creaking sound that scares every deer in the woods to the next county.

If not the treestand itself, certainly you’ve stuck it out in weather conditions you probably shouldn’t have been hunting in, but did so anyways – the things we do for what we love..

This clip graced my Instagram feed recently, and all those times I thought “just tough it out” came screaming back to me. Hopefully you’re not in a treestand if the ground starts “breathing” like this:

 

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A video taken in Sacre-Coeur, Quebec, has captured Weather Network viewer’s attention. In it, strong winds push and pull at the forest floor, making it look like it’s ‘breathing’. While forests don’t breathe per se, the trees that reside in them do, by taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen in a process called photosynthesis. But unlike humans, this process doesn’t involve inhaling and exhaling — which is exactly what the forest floor in this video appears to be doing. ‘Breathing’ forests aren’t uncommon, and we’ve received a few videos of the phenomenon over the years. — Video by Jean Arthur via The Weather Network #WildlifePlanet

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OutdoorHub Editor: Keenan Crow

Keenan Crow is an outdoor writer who graduated from Central Michigan University with a degree in journalism and creative writing. He has been writing for OutdoorHub for nearly five years, but anybody he is close with will tell you he has been telling hunting stories for far longer. He uses his experiences outdoors to write about things he loves - bow hunting, fishing, upland hunting, shed hunting, turkey hunting, waterfowl hunting, dog training, shotguns, ATVs and the outdoor lifestyle he lives in his home state of Michigan. Outside of hunting/fishing, he also loves to cook - especially with wild game - play golf and go on hikes with his yellow lab, Stella.