Is 600 years the qualifying age for ancient woodland in UK? Up here in the Frostpit we reckon 300 years, but perhaps that's just a practical limit to single out some areas more "worthy" of protection than others. I'd reckon that absolutely all coniferous forest (well... we don't have much deciduous stuff anyway...:-) ) up here has been logged at some time or another.
Jostein 2007/7/2, mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bob W wrote: > >>Very nice gallery. Pretty countryside (England looks so > >>manicured compared > >>to California). Age, I think, mainly. How long one has been > >>settled vs the > >>other. > > > > > > probably. That part of the country has been inhabited continuously > > since the end of the last Ice Age, I think. Deforestation happened > > over several thousand years, and there has been agriculture there for > > about 6,000 years. Dorset grew rich off sheep farming during the > > Georgian period, and the hedgerows would have been planted following > > the Enclosures of the 18th (?) century. > > > > There are still some primeval woodlands in the region, but not much, > > so practically the whole countryside is man-made. > > Ancient woodland, meaning over about 600 years old. The only primeval > (meaning never managed) woodland (and that's debateable) in Europe is on > the Poland/Belarus border. Apart from a few blanket and raised bogs, > the whole of the UK landscape is created by Mankind. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
