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Mapping the Rainforests of Britain

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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.

Pretty much all of the UK and Ireland has been cleared apart from scattered fragments of ancient woodland like this. Scotland lost almost all its trees by the 18th century. There are occasional bursts of panicking about timber being a strategic resource - oaks for shipbuilding, or more recently WW1 consumed timber for trench walls and props to such an extent that the Forestry Commission was established to grow it back.

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It'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...

As someone from Canada, I can't help but want to laugh at this being called a forest... As far as I can tell the UK, and England in particular, have got to be some of the most thoroughly deforested non-tiny countries in all of Europe. Maybe Denmark and Holland come close though.

Re: Mapping the Rainforests of Britain

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks...minuscule? https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2070693,-1.1039979,5373m/dat...

As someone from Canada, I can't help but want to laugh at this being called a forest... As far as I can tell the UK, and England in particular, have got to be some of the most thoroughly deforested non-tiny countries in all of Europe. Maybe Denmark and Holland come close though.

The national forest I live next to here in Oregon is listed as being 6,462 km2...
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