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PROF. A. G. Tansley discusses natural and semi-natural British woodlands in a paper published in Forestry (14, 1; 1940). The native British woodlands have been so largely destroyed, and existing woods are now so extensively the results of planting and replanting, says Prof. Tansley, that foresters are naturally inclined to think of them all either as plantations, or as derelict and worthless wood and scrub, of value only as possible sites for new plantations. Some foresters will think that the accusation is correct; for many quite lose sight of the value and importance of a study of the historical part of a forest region or area which may have been once afforested. Prof. Tansley traces the progress of forest destruction in Britain from Neolithic times downwards to the present day. The island climate and the fact that Britain could always obtain all she required by imports removed from us the disabilities following severe deforestation in other parts of the world.
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British Woodlands. Nature 147, 83 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147083b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147083b0