Thread: Lack Of Trees In Irish And British Countrysides
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Default Lack Of Trees In Irish And British Countrysides
In article , Féachadóir
Féach@d.óir wrote:

Irish agriculture was much more pastoral than arable, which may have
meant we held on to forest for longer.

Not sure about that. Goats and sheep can devastate a landscape because no
new shoots get the chance to grow and young trees are quickly nibbled to
death.

Jochen

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