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FE4.3 - A Tiny Wilderness

Future Ecologies

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The European Forests of History

The word forest doesn't refer to a place with many trees, it refers to a place that is uncultivated by people. Franz realized that if large herbevors can steer the succession, what we imagine as natural, a dense, tree laden forest may have been the results of our removing the large graziers. Their absence allowed succession to proceed in a way that we now assume is inevitable. The european forests of history may have looked fundamentally different than those that we know to day.

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