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Lack Of Trees In Irish And British Countrysides
On Thu, 08 May 2008 18:21:09 +1200, Someone else
wrote: Ireland was covered in trees before the English needed timber to built the fleet that fought the Spanish Armada. All else being equal, if they cut down every large tree in Ireland for the task (and I doubt they'd need so many), one presumes the smaller trees would have grown to replace them within fifty years, so something more of an explanation would seem called for. For example farming and firewood, especially as the population grew into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. J. |
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