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Plant Trees, Save the Earth
The british isles used to be covered in forests, but after centuries of converting forest land to agriculture, the iconic british woodland was largely a thing of the past by the twentieth century. Back in the 19 eighties, the government started using tax brakes to encourage private citizens to fund tree planting efforts around the country. The goal was to boost the uks timber supply. But when we do plant trees, we need to be really careful about where we're planting them and what happens after they go in the ground.
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