Posted by Owen Roberts on June 05, 2015 at 15:46:38 user OwenRoberts.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot Promontary posted by Peter Ceresole on June 02, 2015 at 08:21:58:
We tend to thin of trees as permanent features, whereas we know they are a living species.
The area and tree population of the southern lakes would be totally different from AR’s days when he wrote the S&A’s series.
When I last contacted the Forestry Commission on this topic, they replied
“Part of Grizedale Forest, say 15% is ancient woodland which means that it has been woodland for thousands of years. This would be species like oak, ash, willow, alder and birch. This would not have been planted.
The rest of the area was planted in the 1940's. Conifers from north west America, Europe and Japan. Of this 60 % has been felled since the 1980's and replanted as the second rotation.”
The forest lies roughly between Lake Coniston and Windermere. Probably the trees replanted in the 1980’s will be ready for felling soon. But most of the ancient woodland trees will last well over 100 years and the oak to 400 years, so AR’s would have remembered these trees perhaps in younger format.
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