AlunFoto wrote: > Thanks Bob, > > It's indeed hard to imagine there being any truly primeval forest left > in Europe at all, not just UK. > The definition of ancient woodland is quite interesting, particularly > the first two bullet points: > # Ancient woodland is land continuously wooded since AD1600 in England > and Wales or AD1750 in Scotland. > # Areas of ancient woodland that have never been cleared or replanted > are known as semi-natural ancient woodland (SNAW). This resource > cannot increase and is irreplaceable. > > I guess a fully natural ancient woodland would correspond to our use > of "premieval forest". > > The coniferous forest (ie northern boreal region) in Norway takes on > average 300 years without managing to approach SNAW status, which is > nicely between the age set for Scotland and England/Wales. Most areas > with SNAW forest in Norway are already part of national parks, and it > is a ridiculously small area compared to the total amount of forest. > > It puzzles me a bit that they claim "this resource cannot increase". > Certainly, if an area is left to itself for a couple of centuries...?
I don't know either. It would certainly be much more difficult to reproduce something approaching primeval forest. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
