The Inviolable Hills: The Ecology, Conservation and Regeneration of the British UplandsStuart & Watkins in conjunction with The Soil Association, 1968 - 244 pages |
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Page 30
... regeneration . Wide stretches of country had thus been allowed to reach their ecological climax - deciduous woodland up to 2,000 feet in some parts of the English hills , oakwood with holly and hazel in the combes and glens and on lower ...
... regeneration . Wide stretches of country had thus been allowed to reach their ecological climax - deciduous woodland up to 2,000 feet in some parts of the English hills , oakwood with holly and hazel in the combes and glens and on lower ...
Page 48
... regeneration of the natural tree cover of pine , birch and possibly oak , hazel , alder , willow and rowan , by grazing the seedlings as soon as they appear ; while the same effect is achieved on grouse moors by the practice of ...
... regeneration of the natural tree cover of pine , birch and possibly oak , hazel , alder , willow and rowan , by grazing the seedlings as soon as they appear ; while the same effect is achieved on grouse moors by the practice of ...
Page 93
... regeneration strive to assert themselves . Certain plants specialise in the colonisation of sites that have been devastated by fire . These include the birch , the stately rosebay willow - herb and a moss , funaria hygro- metrica ...
... regeneration strive to assert themselves . Certain plants specialise in the colonisation of sites that have been devastated by fire . These include the birch , the stately rosebay willow - herb and a moss , funaria hygro- metrica ...
Contents
Our Greatest UnderDeveloped Resource I | 1 |
PART | 13 |
A COUNTRY THAT WAS OURS | 30 |
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acid acres agricultural Aldo Leopold animals balance beauty biological birds bogs Britain Britain's upland British uplands Brynach building Capability Brown causes Celtic century compost conifers conservation countryside crops D. H. Lawrence deer disease earth ecological effect elements erosion example extracts factors factory farming farm farmers fertilisers fertility flooding flowers forest forestry fruit garden grass grazing green manuring ground-water system growing H. J. Massingham herd Highlands hillside human humus industrial insects Keyline Lady Eve Balfour land landscape leached livestock living Living Soil manure Massingham Max Nicholson minerals moor moorland natural Nature's nutritional organic pastures peat pests pioneer plant ploughing problems realised reclamation regeneration reservoirs river rock Rolf Gardiner roots scheme Scottish sheep Sir Albert Howard slopes soil species Sylvia Crowe techniques tion trees upland areas urban valley vegetation Welsh whole wholefoods wild wild-life wind