Pictures of My Machine Room (So Far) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Jun 2007

Ah yes trees..
    In the UK we have lots of individual trees, a fair few woods and
only a few forests.
If we go back to after the last ice age (about 10,000 years ago) the
reformed land (The land bridge to Europe went)
reverted to Northern forest modified by what my college tutor described
as 'Mexican bathwater'. Insofar as the gulf stream originates off the
coast of Mexico and is warm.
This has the effect of changing the mix of native trees from mainly
pines to favour more broad leaved species. Oak, Ash, Willow etc. The
only thing that prevents most of lowland UK reverting to mixed forest is
the presence of man.

If some disaster whiped out the human population in the UK then within
fifty years it would be back to forest. 

Rod Smallwood

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Teo Zenios wrote:

...
  Quite a bit of the wood they cut is stuff they planted
a long time 
 ago. The really old trees tend to be in national parks and they do not 
...
  get cut down as far as I know. If you have never been
to the US there 
 are huge areas with nothing but trees, we have 300M people but there 
 is plenty of unused land still (unlike old Europe). Not sure why we 
 even import trees from Canada, must be cheaper I guess. 
I am still not sure why Canada imports Trees too. Ikea comes to mind.
All we have around here is the cheap MFB stuff.
...