On 25 Nov 2003 17:43:05 -0800, wrote:

TV shows we see in the US show beautiful green Ireland, and we hear
about abundant rainfall, but see very few trees. Is the terrain,
clmate, etc. not suitable to trees or is it because animals chomp
them?

Jack

This comment is for a time before 1667,
from :http://www.leevalleyireland.com/wild...ibh_laoire.htm

'The Gaelic word for road, "bothar", reminds us that the first roads were
"cow paths" through the then dense temperate rainforest of oak and elm and
the associate under-canopy of holly, hazel, yew, crabapple, wild cherry and
buckthorn.'


--
Tim.

If the human brain were simple enough that we could understand it, we would
be so simple that we couldn't.