Book description
Natural Woodland describes how woodlands grow, die and regenerate in the absence of human influence, and the structures and range of habitats found in natural woods. The underlying theme is that natural woodlands should form a basis for forest management, policies and practices. George Peterken compares the ecology of both…
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The idea of the "wildwood," the prehistoric forests that might once have covered the landscape, has appealed to me since I was a child, but Peterken eloquently describes one version of what that idea might have meant in different places and times.
I can follow how a patch of trees might have grown and matured, to then be battered by gales, consumed by fire, or succumb to fungal or beetle attack. But even as the dead logs decay, new saplings shoot up around them. We have lost the wildwood in Britain, but perhaps we can allow some areas to start…
From Keith's list on woodland history and woodland conservation.
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