Similar work done here looking at Pine Marten habitat in Cumbria based on historic place names: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2907.2001.00070.x
Forgotten Woodlands
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#22In summer I live jn a place with a tiny dialect that like 6000 people still speak and when these reaearchers from X university come around I like making up plausible sounding words and telling them I heard my grandma say it at the hearth when I was a wee child Im powering humanity forward
No, you're poisoning any research into an endangered language. Do we have to remind everyone of the Scots Wikipedia fiasco?
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you go to England, you're better off going to the New Forest in Hampshire. Despite the name, it was established during the Norman period and at least feels like a substantial tract of older woodland. (Tiny by North American standards of course.)
Things with 'new' in the name tend to age quite rapidly. See also Oxford's New College.
Or the Pont-neuf ("new bridge") in Paris being the oldest one in the city.
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#24Reminds me of the woods behind my childhood home, now just another housing development. We lose so much, so fast.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Much much bigger. Visiting it now is quite sad.
If you go to England, you're better off going to the New Forest in Hampshire. Despite the name, it was established during the Norman period and at least feels like a substantial tract of older woodland. (Tiny by North American standards of course.)
Forest was more of a legal term, and tended to be focused on deer than trees.
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#26This kind of hand-drawn map storytelling is what makes web maps feel alive instead of just dashboards. Curious how much of the art direction was done per-location vs a shared visual language across the whole story?
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#27If someday someone does this study for South Florida, they will wonder how a previously mountainous terrain became so flat. You can drive around and spot "Hills," "Heights,” “Ridge,” “Vista,” and “View” on pancake-flat sites. Hopefully there weren't ancient Scottish versions of real estate developers confounding this study.
In a low lying area, all these names can refer to far more smaller features than they would in hillier places. The "ridge" in question may have been only twenty foot tall for example, and smaller than a railway foundation. Some of these may have been artificial and built by native peoples. Others might be remnants of ancient tsunami and hurricanes, changing sea levels, floods and so on. The same phenomenon occurs els…
A twenty-foot ridge in Florida would be the tallest thing in the county and qualify for names like "Matterhorn".
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#28In summer I live jn a place with a tiny dialect that like 6000 people still speak and when these reaearchers from X university come around I like making up plausible sounding words and telling them I heard my grandma say it at the hearth when I was a wee child Im powering humanity forward
No, you're poisoning any research into an endangered language. Do we have to remind everyone of the Scots Wikipedia fiasco?
I have not heard of the Scots Wikipedia fiasco.
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#29If someday someone does this study for South Florida, they will wonder how a previously mountainous terrain became so flat. You can drive around and spot "Hills," "Heights,” “Ridge,” “Vista,” and “View” on pancake-flat sites. Hopefully there weren't ancient Scottish versions of real estate developers confounding this study.
In a low lying area, all these names can refer to far more smaller features than they would in hillier places. The "ridge" in question may have been only twenty foot tall for example, and smaller than a railway foundation. Some of these may have been artificial and built by native peoples. Others might be remnants of ancient tsunami and hurricanes, changing sea levels, floods and so on. The same phenomenon occurs els…
I'm guessing you've not been to South Florida