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Post out there like 'the English turned their island from a hazelnut food forest to a goddamn lawn' and like. someone has already rebutted the rest of the post's bizarre takes but I'm just here to go hazel?? food forest? lawn?? wh a t? Obviously we - not just England - have hazelnut trees here but our forests are more often oak-dominated, with Scots pine in the north (the clue is in the name); we still have temperate rainforest along the west coast and in the north; I am also not sure that this is the correct usage of the term 'food forest'. Also, I'm not sure this is the correct usage of the term lawn.

(Coed Felenrhyd & Llennyrch, Eryri: Atlantic oak rainforest. Credit: Phil Formby / WTML)

(Wild Purbeck, North Yorkshire: a mix of woodland, wetland, and heath. Credit: Craig Charters)

(Rothiemurchus Forest, Cairngorms: native pine forest with open moorland, juniper scrub, and long-established farmland. Credit: Cairngorms National Park)

#the uk landscape is as deeply shaped by human occupation as any other #our historical forestry focus was mostly hunting and coppicing/timber #and we have other natural and naturalistic landscapes as well #wetland and heathland and scrub as well as all the coastal environments

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