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"You should not plant trees on ... grassland that has never been ploughed..." Can anyone shed some light on the reason behind not planting in open grassland?
by cabaalis 7y ago
"You should not plant trees on ... grassland that has never been ploughed..."
Can anyone shed some light on the reason behind not planting in open grassland?
- Jolter 7y agoPresumably because the Trust are tasked with conservation of nature, they cannot recommend converting one land use to another, because that would run contrary to their task.
- carapace 7y agoThink about it, this is in Britain right? Grassland that has never been ploughed is going to be pretty rare, probably some kind of old ecology that shouldn't be converted to forest willy-nilly. That's my guess anyway.
- tastyfreeze 7y agoThe only problem I have with that is that many areas that are grassland in the UK now may have been heavily forested and were denuded of trees prior to or during Roman colonization. I found this video on Caledonian reforestation interesting: https://youtu.be/UDtsExXe93Q https://youtu.be/UDtsExXe93Q