It seems that forests have never been more in the news than they
are today. The part played by the tropical forests in sustaining
the world's climate is well understood, but they are in drastic
decline. The British prehistoric forest was mostly destroyed
thousands of years ago to make way for farming. Only since the
First World War have practical measures been taken to reverse this
trend of decline, and a century of tree planting has more than
doubled Britain's forest cover. Most of the early thinking on tree
planting in Britain was about boosting timber production in the
aftermath of the two World Wars, when submarine blockades froze out
imports. But times have changed. Planting today is inspired not
just by the need for timber, but by environmental and social
initiatives that are working to strengthen the partnership between
people and nature. David Foot reveals the story of
twentieth-century forest creation, and the Eureka moment in the
1980s that challenged foresters and conservationists to work
together on new ideas.
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