telegraph.co.uk — Historical maps help reveal how landscapes once looked when vast swathes of the country were covered in forest. As well as showing how much woodland we have lost they can also help pinpoint the ancient survivors.
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gr0ssDec 18, 2007
I hope no one tries to cut them down at any point in time, or deface them.
ghm101Dec 18, 2007
Here is a truly ancient thing, a tree arguably 10,000+ years old, this is a tree that spouts a new stem when a limb touches the ground, in this way the same genetically identical organism has continuously existed since before God was supposed to have created the world. - thats pretty clever even for god ;-)<a class="user" href="http://www.apstas.com/Mt__Read_Huon_pine.html">http://www.apstas.com/Mt__Read_Huon_pine.html</a>
Closed AccountDec 18, 2007
How did trees learn to use maps? I'm a human and I can't use them.
Closed AccountDec 18, 2007
That's rad. If they keep working hard they can probably preserve all the ancient trees in Britain. It's about time we turn the tides and start to respect the planet.
chiefshamanDec 18, 2007
I guess we're lucky they're not here in the U.S., where we would make the land a national forest, and the government would trade the land to the lumber companies for lumbered land!
jonshipmanDec 18, 2007
they where maps of other places - but with drawings of where the forests where. You take a 200 year old map and lay it over a current map and where forests line up - there are your 200 year old + trees.
Closed AccountDec 19, 2007
Pirates do. I have never seen a pirate searching for buried treasure with a Garmin. Or should I say with a GARRRRRmin.
pjr12345Dec 19, 2007
You can hate yourself and your country all you want because many brave men have given their lives to defend your right to speak foolishly.