StoneGloves wrote: Oh god, don't get me started on the National Forest. Thousands of trees - no skills to maintain them. Just the trees going in - no other (associated) woodland species, beyond the occasional primrose and wild daffodil. No fungi, micro-invertertebrates, lichen. The birds will find their way in, but the grasses? (Never). National Plantation, more like ...
It may not be the same as what went before but the national forest is something for the good is'nt it? The seed bank is already probably in the soil as well. I've watched it planted in Somerset along the slopes of the downs, as the farmers plant up the fields, then they have to erect tall wire metal fencing to keep deer out, young saplings and tree guards are planted...
Thread seems to have gone astray on paganism and the pope but I'm sure some of the trees will outlast either ;)
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