Intense forest clearance in former times has radically altered the orginal woodland structure.

The forests of the Pass dal Fuorn region are the most extensive mountain pine forests in the Alps. In the course of time they will most probably be regenerated and become mixed sub-alpine forests. Heather and mountain pine form a typical and widely distributed association, the so-called heather-mountain pine (Mugeto-Ericetum) forests.

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