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Ancient Oaks in the English Landscape (Hardcover, New edition)
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Ancient Oaks in the English Landscape (Hardcover, New edition)
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England has more ancient native oak trees than the rest of Europe
combined. How did that come about? The reasons are all historical,
and nothing to do with climate or soil factors. This story goes
back to the Norman conquest of England in 1066. They created Royal
Forests, chases and deer parks, where only the nobility could hunt
or keep deer and it was forbidden to cut the trees. This was, if
you like, an early form of nature conservation, but for the sake of
privileged hunting. Preservation of these oaks further continued
through a combination of private ownership of thousands of parks,
conservatism of the landowners, overseas timber availability and
the absence of ruining wars on the English landscape; the majority
of which had been confined to the continent.
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