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Lack Of Trees In Irish And British Countrysides
On May 11, 10:55*am, Des Higgins wrote:
On May 11, 1:14*am, Taig & Charlie wrote: Des Higgins wrote: On May 9, 5:15 pm, Si wrote: On 8 May, 13:49, Des Higgins wrote: On May 8, 11:15 am, mothed out wrote: On May 7, 11:53 pm, (Way Back Jack) wrote: TV documentaries and travelogues reveal a lot of lush "green" in those countrysides but a relative scarcity of trees. *Is it climate? *Too windy in Ireland? *Sheep and/or other livestock? One factor is this: The EU has been paying farmers to cut down trees for a long time. I think it is now paying people to plant them again. Tree coverage in Ireland was at its lowest point a century ago. *The EU has nothing to do with it. *In fact, Irish tree coverage has been slowly growing since the 70s. *The trees disappeared for farming, fuel and for building (including ships), centuries ago. T'was the towel heads(pasted from an old SCI thread): "Message from Q'il Q'as (Al Jazzbeera) Q'adda yen Hamid fastha q'on Aymid? Tha Tehran A'Q'ilta er Al'Awer. Ni Al Traw'q ter Q'il Q'as nawat' Ayla'q, Shni Q'lingfer A'Qling Ibn' Braw " well spotted that man!! It makes a change from blaming the Brits (apart from Gavin Bailey who himself almost certainly chopped down several large native trees). Des I didn't see him do it, though it is very likely, I would imagine he lingered at it, you know the way those crazy pepole in Oregon tie you to a tree before they do something that has the FBI web-site falling over? Well I reckon it was like that, a difficult to understand type of thing. I did not see him do it either; I am just assuming he must have; *it would be exactly the kind of oppressive thing he would have done. Before the troubles, only 13.4% of NI trees were native. T & C- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - It was the unwanted introduction of Pinus sylvestris in the 17th century in NI that was responsible for all the woes up there. Si "Bog snorkler extraordinaire" |
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