Alex DeRuiter
Chumono
Obvious human intervention, or aliens? 
http://news.discovery.com/earth/polands-crooked-forest-mystery-110628.html
http://news.discovery.com/earth/polands-crooked-forest-mystery-110628.html
Neat-o (Crooked Forest)
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Attila Soos
Omono
To me, the answer is obvious: these crooked trees will never be harvested by anybody, since the lumber will be pretty much useless. So, the forest is a virtually protected habitat, due to its uselessness as lumber.
Very clever conservationist move.
Very clever conservationist move.
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
More likely snow load and prevailing wind. This kind of bend is appearing in younger pines here that got squashed in the five feet of snow we had two years ago...
Alex DeRuiter
Chumono
I suppose both are possible. One thing that makes me wonder about whether it was human intervention or is the fact that they've all grown very similarly, and it looks like a lot of trees. I love the idea of doing something like that so they wouldn't be harvested -- that really is an awesome idea. The snow idea seems very logical though. I wonder. . . .
Bill S
Masterpiece
The latest crop of Riccola horns.
Alex DeRuiter
Chumono
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raydomz
Shohin
Obviously aliens. 
Ron Dennis
Shohin
Makes for a very good story regardless.Attila Soos
Omono
I am not sure about the snow idea. I've grown up with snow country, but this to weird to be natural. In heavy snowfall, trees just get buried, but never bent like this. I find it entirely impossible for this to happen just from snow.
I think this is a great postulate.
edprocoat
Masterpiece
Looking at the picture the trees with the scarring at the base actually look like they were broken and then grew. I see trees very similiar to this all over florida from storms and winds. Its odd that in the picture there are two that are straight right near the bent ones they show, it seems the story was skewed by the photographer to show the most twisted ones, afterall if there were really 400 bent this way one would use a wider angle lens and show the effect on the whole scale. The first thought I had being this forest was in Poland was this was the because of a bomb blast from the war, trees that had bent by a blast and covered with the debris of other trees that were blown upon them and over the years had rotted away as the bent ones continued to grow.
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Klytus
Omono
My guess is camouflage netting.
