The heating needs are usually regrowing. Agriculture is a thing, sure. The majority of the forests on the Italian peninsula was used up by the powera to be, fro

The heating needs are usually regrowing. Agriculture is a thing, sure. The majority of the forests on the Italian peninsula was used up by the powera to be, from the Romans to the Venetians, was used for ships now lying somewhere on the sea floor. You can read up on the history of the Battle of Lepanto, the Venetian Arsenal and just how much wood was cut down for that fleet on the Venetian side not to speak of the Ottomans. Having the logistics in place for these kind of things is among the main reasons the Roman were able to buiod their empire in the first place.