I like this thinking. But also: it's clear this is a monoculture wood crop, not a "forest".
So in fact, this IS brownfield development: changing one industrial land use (forest products) into another one.
Doesn't mean they can't do the paperwork correctly tho.
There hardly is anyone forest left, that wasn't planted by humans in Europe, and most are going to be used to make "forest products". By your measure there is not really any "forest" existing anymore, but this is just not true. Forest brings the qualities of a forest, even when you use it to cut and sell wood, you just need to do it in a sustainable manner, which is essentially a solved problem in Europe both in theory and practice. This is what the society concerned itself and solved already in the 17-hundreds.