Maybe they weren't there at the time?

According to
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinat...nvironment.htm
(re)forestation in Iceland is a recent thing, while the trees depicted in
http://icelandiscool.com/treepicture/
don't look as if they have been there a long time

When was she there anyway? If she was there when Iris was young then the
trees likely were not planted yet ;^)
PvR

PS to call this reforestation is taking a really long time view, considering
how long it must have been since the Ice Ages scoured the country of trees!
+ + +
Monique Reed schreef
Interesting. I wonder how she, as a field biologist, missed those?

M. Reed

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How high is "truly tree-sized"?
Trees over 20 m high can be found in many places in Iceland.