Mapping the Rainforests of Britain
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Mapping the Rainforests of Britain
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#2It's been a few years since I found out and I still can't get over the size of the Sherwood forest.
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#3I spent some time planting Scots Pine with Trees for Life a few years ago and was struck at the biodiversity Id never seen before in the remaining ancient woodland up near Inverness. Wood Ants and beautiful Lichens and Pine Martens to name a few.
Edit: a picture of lichen: https://imgur.com/Jn1CVo4
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#4It's been a few years since I found out and I still can't get over the size of the Sherwood forest.
It looks...minuscule?
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2070693,-1.1039979,5373m/dat...
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#5It's been a few years since I found out and I still can't get over the size of the Sherwood forest.
It looks...minuscule? https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2070693,-1.1039979,5373m/dat...
Only the English could call that a forest. It has more roads than square kilometers, and all of it looks like it has been cleared and replanted.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
It looks...minuscule? https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2070693,-1.1039979,5373m/dat...
Only the English could call that a forest. It has more roads than square kilometers, and all of it looks like it has been cleared and replanted.
I'll be honest I thought this was a "hot internet take" style comment but this comment is actually being generous. I'm quite honestly sure the block I grew up in and the one next to it had more trees and less development than whatever is left of that forest.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
It looks...minuscule? https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2070693,-1.1039979,5373m/dat...
Only the English could call that a forest. It has more roads than square kilometers, and all of it looks like it has been cleared and replanted.
The word forest originally refers to land that is reserved for the king to hunt on, extract wood and other resources etc. from rather than a heavily wooded area. Even when it was first made a forest (and originally it was much larger) Nottingham forest wouldn't have been entirely, or even mostly closed canopy woodland. A lot of it would have been wooded pasture and heathland. Most of the wooded bits would have been managed by coppicing, polarding and selective felling, and then the forestry commission wiped out much of the rest in the post war period. There's a few bits of ancient woodland in there, but mostly in areas that would have been difficult to get to historically. For a laugh, google forest of Bowland, one of our larger forests that has and has never had more than a scattering if trees.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only the English could call that a forest. It has more roads than square kilometers, and all of it looks like it has been cleared and replanted.
The word forest originally refers to land that is reserved for the king to hunt on, extract wood and other resources etc. from rather than a heavily wooded area. Even when it was first made a forest (and originally it was much larger) Nottingham forest wouldn't have been entirely, or even mostly closed canopy woodland. A lot of it would have been wooded pasture and heathland. Most of the wooded bits would have been m…
Interesting etymology!
Re: Mapping the Rainforests of Britain
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only the English could call that a forest. It has more roads than square kilometers, and all of it looks like it has been cleared and replanted.
I'll be honest I thought this was a "hot internet take" style comment but this comment is actually being generous. I'm quite honestly sure the block I grew up in and the one next to it had more trees and less development than whatever is left of that forest.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only the English could call that a forest. It has more roads than square kilometers, and all of it looks like it has been cleared and replanted.
The word forest originally refers to land that is reserved for the king to hunt on, extract wood and other resources etc. from rather than a heavily wooded area. Even when it was first made a forest (and originally it was much larger) Nottingham forest wouldn't have been entirely, or even mostly closed canopy woodland. A lot of it would have been wooded pasture and heathland. Most of the wooded bits would have been m…
The New Forest is also largely grassland and heathland.