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Originally Posted by Hornbeam Yes. I was using the term "wood pasture" as a short cut all embracing term for all of the chain-sawing that goes on. The point that is lost is that in earlier times, coppicing and pollarding were carried out to produce a useful crop of poles for buildings, fences and tools. The aim was not to improve biodiversity. With the fad for putting cattle in our forests, will we also see a return of pannage? Go photograph those helleborines now folks before Miss Piggy gobbles them up. |
Yes I see what you mean. Maybe the return to 'wood pasture' which doesn't entail chopping down trees, is thought of as some, as a cheaper alternative to using manpower to control 'overgrown' areas or coppice them, or even as a way of attracting tourists!
Also you could say that the miss piggy you are talking about is just a replacement of
Wild Boar, another thing that many would like to see re-introduced. One of the reasons we have a lot of bluebell woods in this country compared to mainland Europe, is that lack of these! But
Wild Boar have benifits too, swings and roundabouts again!!