Hi,

Your priorities are not mine... we map what we like, when we like it and while the prime function is of OSM is assist users routing from A to B, one would expect that after 20 years all ways that are important for routing have been mapped. 
These forests were last touched 2 weeks ago and longer before so it does not seem like creating any mapping conflicts of 2 mapping simultaneously in the same area. OSM is at that very capable to handle mapping conflicts, if while mapping by one and uploading create such an issue of another mapper changing the same object just before the is the resolution process which in JOSM is very robust. Opposed to iD editor which often breaks relations in the hand of many a mapper, JOSM has a full walk thru process. At any rate these forests are now set for maintenance over the near future and beyond, in fact came across one that had not been touched in 10 years. So happened to be exactly 1900 nodes, so left it alone.

Happy mapping.